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What has happened to the Army One Stop website? We will be PCS'ing soon and I tried to look at housing on Army One Stop, but it says the site is no longer available.

Fort Bliss Housing......? We are PCSing to Fort Bliss housing in July 2010. What is on post housing like? We are a family of 3 and my husband is an E-5. Is there a long waiting list and do the homes come with a garage? Army one stop housing shows 1 type of home for E-5's and it has no garage. Is this the only type of home on post for a 2 bedroom? Where is the best place to live off post in case we cant get into housing?

Fort Sill housing wait list? Anyone have any clue what the current wait list for on post housing at Fort Sill is? The army one stop housing website has been down for a month and I can't find it on the website (unless you're actually ON the wait list). We have 2 kids (one boy, one girl, 2.5 age difference) and he's junior enlisted. This will be his first assignment after AIT, so supposedly they will "back date" him on the waiting list to the date he left for BCT (mid October). So that gives us about a 5 month boost. I've heard wait times can be up to a year! He doesn't have his paper orders yet so it's not official, but I would reallllly like to have some sort of idea. I know I said we have a boy and a girl, but I'm actually pregnant with the girl and due less than a month after his AIT finishes. Thank so much!

Army one stop web site? Hello. Do anyone know what happen to army one stop web site. it's a site that shows housing on military bases. Is there another site, or is there a link that I can go to that relates to this site?

Families stationed in Fort Richardson,AK? How do you like it? How is the housing on base? Also besides Army One Stop Housing any place I can see more photos of the homes on base? Just tell me a little about your experience there. Thanks!

Any spouses feel penalized by ARMY housing and pcs dates being altered due to stop loss? I feel as if I had rejoined the army when he signed up since there are regulations placed on spouse movement (i.e., hubby gets deployed for 12mos-18 mos. and you're only "allowed" to leave your government housing overseas for a max of 30 days without him losing a section of his pay called BAH. Fine, I understand that. Pls. ship my household goods back to america from germany so I can complete myde gree bc there's nothing worthwhile to beaccomplished in 30 days (smaller post have limitations on course offerings, i.e, no science w/ labs 2 complete a r.n. prog); But if I leave and when he returns I can NOT be command sponsored again UNLEss he has 3yrs left on contract! So i either bend over and take the shaft in one of x ways:1) EROD (early return of dependents) and not be able to afford to stay in europe on our own w/ his salary (which btw he could be making min $160k/yr as a civ. arabic speaker and not deal w/ this) when he returns for the rest of his 18 mos. left on contract. 2)stay and don't do anything to complete my degree till the iraq fiasco is over (post doesn't have courses higher than gen ed that I need 2 complete a r.n. prog) 3)Hope he gets a duty station close to where I live (in n. ca/the houston area) even though the distance from either place would be a min. of a 5 hr. drive since we've both agreed to not add a single day to his contract. 3)perhaps you'll see why I'm so reluctant for him to sign up and he has seen the light as well. I'm due shortly., his unit COULD let him stay for 2 wks. after their deployment so he could see the kid (they've done it before for 2 others), but new ldrshp + unit change has allowed paperwork to get lost/whatever...only answer he gets is they're unsure when they could get a decision about that. In addition to that, everyone in his unit has had the proposed leave of their max 4 wks. before deploying for over a year cut to 2 wks. AND THE ARMY WONDERS WHY PPL DON'T EASILY REENLIST THESE DAYS??!?!!?

How long is the current wait for housing on Vilseck/Grafenwoehr? E6 w/ 3 kids. So, 4 bedroom, right? We are set to move to Vilseck (3rd Squadron, 2 SCR) in March. I am trying to get an idea on how long the wait is for housing. Army One Stop does not have current info. I know that there are quite a few soldiers coming when we are, so I am hoping the wait is not too long. We have a baby due only 2 weeks before our report date, so I am worried that the passports will delay me, and then they won't let me come out until my husband finds housing. I know they are deploying soon, so I hope we are not apart for months waiting on housing.

Officer housing at Ft. Benning? I am PCSing with my husband to Ft. Benning in a few months. We would like to live on-post, but have no idea what O3 housing looks like. Army One Stop, the Ft. Benning website and everywhere else I have looked have NOTHING about O3 housing. Can someone please help me? Pictures, floor plans, descriptions, etc. are all appreciated! Thanks!

why us government doesn't deploy army in LA and other cities to stop human trafficking? why us army can solve women rights issues in afghanistan but cannot solve much worse problems in united states many girls are kidnapped to work as sex slaves in USA but no one asked us army to use drones to bomb brothels the right thing to do is to provide shelter for abused women so if usa government wants to save afghan women and children the best way is to provide asylum and shelter to afghan women in empty us cities battered by housing crisis

Don't ask don't tell....my boyfriend is in the reserves in bootcamp? So my boyfriend has been in bootcamp for about two months now...and I still have so many questions. When he gets done and is only working one weekend a month....for the rest of that month, does he still have to live in the closet? Like...would he be allowed to go to a gay club....would we be allowed to get married while he is still in active duty...even though he only serves one weekend a month? What if we wanted to get an apartment together? Does anyone from the army ever stop by the house and check up? Does this law mean he's not allowed to talk about his sexuality, or he has to deny it? Also, does the army read letters sent and recieved to and from soldiers? And, if they do read them, could they discharge him for him mentioning his sexuality in a letter? Further, what is Barack Obama attempting to do to correct this situation?

An Army recruiter won't stop bothering me? Here's the thing,I just turned 16 and me and my older brother both live with our grandparents. The Army recruiter called at the house one day and asked for my brother and I said he wasn't home. The recruiter started asking me questions like how old am I and what i wanted to do in life. I told him that I was 16 and for him to call back next year and I'll think about it. He came to our school and found out who I was and bothered me there and everytime I go to the mall with my friends,he follows me around and tells me that if I dont join the Army that I'll end up like the rest of the losers in this town. I mean,I'm only 16,I CANT join,what doesnt he understand about that? I told him to stop bothering me but he wont. How can I make this stop?

You want to know how to really feel good about yourself? I found a wad of money on the sidewalk today. It was three one dollar bills. That made me feel pretty good, but ?I wanted to feel better. I gave $1 to a homeless man at the bus stop. I gave another $1 to the animal shelter between that bus stop and my house. Tomorrow I'm going to give that last dollar to the Salvation Army. Giving away money feels incredible. Try it.

What will you do if Armies (USA) force you stop worship God? I read this and just wonder if ....Acts 8:3 Saul, though, began to deal outrageously with the congregation. Invading one house after another and, dragging out both men and women, he would turn them over to prison. If they are doing this same thing like Saul and his crews doing this. So will you quit worship God?

How come no one ever talks about mexicos civil drug war? Casualties and losses Over 3,220 killed many more wounded this kind of thing shouldn’t go silent. WTF!? i mean, no one ever told me about this, just like no one ever says anything about anything in africa, or the other wars past in central and south america. i have heard the russians have sent special forces in to retake a city that the drug cartels have captured. WTF!? this is right across the freaken border with america, and half the country is clueless!!! um, i kinda think people need to know about this, especially when casualties are this high, and its only a few miles away for allot of people in the US. this is infuriating that our stupid ass media doesnt say shit about it! stupid as GA news doesnt even give the daily death toll in ATL anymore. you can only find out how many people got killed by if you get the local news in atlanta. usually about 1-3 people get killed a day, and now they stopped telling people about it, because they dont want to stop tourism, these IDIOTS! Makes me so fu*king mad!!!! They don’t even say the death toll in Iraq any more, like when a car bomb kills someone, they do on CNN but not the news down here anymore, they used to tell you this, but now they are talking all sweet like nothing is going on! WTF!? I mean I've noticed allot, I mean ALLOT of people moving down here, and then they start to talk less and less about the killings! Stupid mother fu*kers! They have the nerve to tell us that Cuba lets their people buy cell phones, SO FU*KING WHAT! I don’t give a damn about that! Wooo hoo, good for them. Death is 100000000000000 times more important to talk about than that sh*t! especially when its your neighboring country! I still don’t exactly know to what sides these deaths are from, they mixed the drug dealers deaths right along in with the soldiers and polices deaths, I would at least like to know who is loosing what compared to the other side. Damn! I hate the News, I heard something about a drug war on CNN, but I didn’t know it was that bad, its basically a civil war, when people overthrow cities from government control, that's about a civil war, not just a drug war. Drug wars are usually police raiding houses to help stop drugs, not when you start talking about thousands of deaths and when the army gets involved! That's a civil war! In my book, or they should add the title very very bloody drug war. LA, yeah, thats another example!

What do you think of this plan for the Palestinians and Israelis? If not, show the hole in the plan, please? ? The Jews lived in that area under the kingdom, however, when the kingdom failed they, the Jews, for the most part, moved to Europe and in latter centuries, the Americas. Britain, after WW2 still owned what is now Israel...vague swath of land (but not the West Bank, Golan Heights or Gaza). After the terrible things the Jews were put through during world war two, the English promised the Jews a homeland -- That 'homeland' they promised them was Israel. Then, in 1967, the state of Israel took the West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza by force from the Arabs. There was a relatively brief war but the Israelis, with Western support (not so much America though, at that time) took these places. So, what's the long term solution? Israel has a right to be, no doubt in my mind and in 2002 the Saudis got agreement from most all Arab Nations that Israel has a right to exist. Still, Israel doesn't own the West Bank or Golan Heights and many consider those occupations. The Golan Heights, for true peace with Syria will have to be returned to them. See, the Golan Heights is very close to the capital of Syria, Damascus. So, tactically, it wouldn't be the best move, but if true peace is to come then it is a must. Syria probably supports Hamas as a proxy against Israel because they, the Syrians want their land back. However, if Israel were to give the Syrians back their land, Syrian support for terrorist groups like Hamas would dry up. See, Syria and Hamas are both Sunni Muslims where Iran and Hezbollah are Shiite Muslims. Think of Them as Catholics and Protestants: The two religious factions don't get a long very well. Despite this, Iran is probably supporting Hamas as well as Hezbollah as the both have the same foe. it is unliky there will be a cessation of monies and arms given to these two, Hamas and Hezbollah, by Iran as they are, basically, state sponsor of terrorism So, Give Syria back it's land. Now, we come to the West Bank...oh dear. So, this land was taken by Israel in '67. When you look at the size of the West Bank it is very, very large part of land and if Israel were to give it back entirely it would reduce the size of their country dramatically. So, at least for now, what Israel needs to do is stop new housing development on the West Bank until they can figure out a way to share the land in some manner. Gaza, actually, hasn't entirely been given back as Israel still controls the air (Hamas has no Air Force, thank goodness), still controls the land port and the sea. The Palestinian people in Gaza are angrey that they have nothing and they turn towards people that will fight for them, sadly, Hamas will literally fight for them. If peace befalls Gaze by an end to this violence, on both sides, there will be foreign investment, I think Hamas would crumble as they have no experties to handle treasure (as in money) and it would be squanders or misused. The people of Gaza would get angry and kick them, Hamas, out. You're going to need both sides make concessions -- Hamas and Hezbollah going need to lay down arms, for good. In the case of Hezbollah assimilate into the National Lebanese Army or disassemble, one of two..Preferably disassemble because there are trust issues. A creation of a Palestinian state is probably needed but that is a massive undertaking and we can't have progress on that front without peace. Good Luck to you in this coming New Year, the people of the Middle East and of the world. Peace. What do you think of this plan for the Palestinians and Israelis? If not, show the hole in the plan, please? ?????????? Brayden, 15 years. bill, you'd be surprised. the west invested in China -- China Kicked the west out and they went back into China...not with tanks, with their wallets.

Should I sell my house and move? To one side of me lives a paedophile, the other side is 2 gay men trying to adopt a baby, we have at least 6 families of illegal immigrants as well as an army of single parents. There is CCTV on every lamp post but that doesn't stop the squat den full of hoodie drug pushers. I am the only one on the street who works and now they want to turn the local community centre into a mosque. Should I move house or just stop reading the Daily Mail?

Joining the Army and depression? Ok, I actually never was diagnosed with depression. However, I was actually contacted multiple times by the police because of suicide watches. There was one point I was going to attempt to commit suicide and when I went to do it the only reason I was stopped was because a friend of mine got into my house and found my note before I did it. She called the cops and they found me before I could carry it out. There is a record of that but I don't think that it was written down. Now honestly, I still have feelings of this but it's not as bad. I want to join the US Army, will this stop me? Will they be able to find this out? And please, I just want an answer, this is not a fake question. Btw, I also did have a prescription for depression medication.

Pictures of military housing? Where can i find pictures of military housing, besides the go army website, i believe there is another site, i don't remember the website. maybe one stop or something, please help thank you!

which one should i choose? I have to choose a topic for my term paper. Here are 8 topics with some details about them. I cannot decide which one, so I will tally up to see which one I should write. Please help! 1730s town- Margaret and William Ackerly move from their hometown, Saddle Brook, to an unoccupied land. They found a new town and call it Ackersville. Margaret’s hometown friend, John, and his family move and settle in Ackersville. About a half mile away from the Ackerly’s homestead is a creek that is around three to four feet wide. (They named it Marge Creek.) One day, William ventures across it to discover and old run down cabin. The cabin has a curse from the previous occupants, the Wakita people, who were a mix of white man and Native Americans. Ever since the discovery, the Ackersville residents come down with deathly diseases and have horrible things happen to their town. They have to break the curse to cure all diseases and mishaps that have occurred since the encounter with the old cabin. Haunted house-It’s Hillary’s birthday and she plans a scavenger hunt and a sleepover with her best friends, Amy, Jenna, and Jamie. When Hillary’s friends arrive, they immediately get ready for the scavenger hunt and leave as soon as possible. During the hunt, Jenna and Hillary hear a scream off in the distance. When the girls gather together, they glance in the direction of where they think the scream came from and they discover an old dirt path that leads into the woods. Hillary, being the brave one, decides they will investigate. The girls walk down the path and stop when they come to an iron gate. Hillary, Amy, Jenna, and Jamie are standing in front of the old Rickshaw Estate, a rumored haunted house. Twin witches-Gwendolyn and Prudence Hall are seven-year-old twin witches. On their eighth birthday, which happens to be Hallows Eve, they went trick-or-treating like usual. The girls stopped at this one house, and knocked on the door. No one answered, but it looked like someone was home. Prudence, the braver of the two, turned the knob and opened the door. They ventured inside and searched all over the house. Finally, they came across something out of the ordinary, a tiny door behind the staircase. Gwendolyn and Prudence opened the small door and got sucked into a porthole. It brings them to a cartoon world where the girls believe it is the best place ever. Soon they begin to feel homesick, but how will they return home? Pet that changes into any pet the owner wants- Ryan Scott has wanted a pet since he was five years old. His parents said he had to wait for his tenth birthday for one, but he convinced them to let him get one a week before. The Scotts go to the pet store for Ryan to pick out a pet. He decides on a puppy, picks the one he likes and his parents buy it for him. When they return home, Ryan wishes he had bought a chameleon instead. Right before his eyes, the puppy transforms into this bug-eyed, scaly chameleon. He doesn’t know, though, that the animal will not change after his tenth birthday. Will he find out and be able to pick the perfect pet? Pendant time machine-Mr. Arthur is the teacher for the 5th grade class at Elmwood Elementary School. No one knows why, but he always has this pendant around his neck. One day, Mr. Arthur shows his class that the pendant is really a time machine. The first field trip for his 5th grade class will be to the Jurassic time period! Peeps-The Peeps are tiny, pea-like creatures that have a village in the very core of the Earth. They call their village Peepadoop, and in Peepadoop is a very special gem called the Pea. The Pea powers their village and allows for life in Peepadoop. Dr. Woo is an evil Peep who is after the Pea for his own village. Only, he is using it for the strength of his army to take over Peepadoop. The Peeps can only live in Peepadoop for six days once the Pea is gone. Can they retrieve the Pea and save Peepadoop? The Journal-Eight-year-old Clarissa is walking home from school one day and stumbles upon a journal lying in the middle of the sidewalk. Her curious nature urges her to stop and pick it up. She searches all over the outside and inside for a name, but there is none to be found. Clarissa decides to keep it and read it. What harm could that do after all? Little does she know it’s a journal about her that reveals every moment that happens in her life. Tinkerbell flies away-One day, Peter Pan went to Cinderella’s Castle to ask Tinkerbell if she was going to Cinderella’s ball. When he arrived at Cinderella’s Castle, he looked all over for Tinkerbell but could not find her anywhere. Peter Pan then ran to tell all the other Disney characters in Magic Kingdom that he thinks Tinkerbell ran away. It turns out that Tinkerbell did run away, and now that she is gone, Magic Kingdom is no longer magical. Can Peter Pan and the Disney characters find Tinkerbell and restore the magic?

How do I stop an evil sock puppet with magical powers? My friend let her army of sock puppets have a sleep over at my house last week and one of them took a liking to me. He even died his hair blue, like mine! Anyway he came over to my house today with his girlfriend another sock puppet named Penguin-Food. She looks like a duck, and she keeps on trying to destroy me. How can I stop her? She is also evil, very evil!

When will the army be brought in? We need the army. We need a government who will stand up and say we need TA's and army soldiers stationed here to help because the more help the better. The government needs to make fast decisions and they need to stop these rioters because they have the people of london literally locked in there houses and the streets are bare. No one will be out tonight and we can't let a bunch a thugs lock us away. We need the army, we need to get more people to fight against these rioters. We deserve to be safe and the government is too busy blaming BBM for messaging than getting in the people that we actually need.

pcs to texas, i have some questions? My husband just found out that we are moving to Texas once we leave Germany, he asked to go there. We are here until April of 2010 but we haven't got our orders yet to go to Texas. Does anyone know if we have to do all 3 yrs here in Germany or if we can leave earlier to go to Texas? I mean I know we will get the orders soon but I'm just excited. Also I went to the army one stop to look at the on post housing and we have 2 children and I was just wondering if anyone that lives there now or has recently, recommends which housing to live at. My husband will be an E-5 and we have 2 kids so if anyone could help me and tell me where is good that would be great. I don't want to live in some dump I want it to feel like a home. I'm getting nervous because it is hard for me to think of living anywhere but Germany because this is our first duty station. I'm just excited so if someone could tell me some things about there I would appreciate it:) Just wanted to let you know my husband is in the army...hooah all the way. Anyways his mos is a 19k for those of you that don't know thats a tanker. This is his first reenlistment and he chose ft hood texas and he got it. we still have until april 2010 before we finish out tour in germany

Why does Newt Gingrich agree with al-Qaeda? http://www.economist.com/node/16743239 WHAT makes a Muslim in Britain or America wake up and decide that he is no longer a Briton or American but an Islamic “soldier” fighting a holy war against the infidel? Part of it must be pull: the lure of jihadism. Part is presumably push: a feeling that he no longer belongs to the place where he lives. Either way, the results can be lethal. A chilling feature of the suicide video left by Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the band that killed more than 50 people in London in July, 2005, was the homely Yorkshire accent in which he told his countrymen that “your” government is at war with “my people”. For a while America seemed less vulnerable than Europe to home-grown jihadism. The Pew Research Centre reported three years ago that most Muslim Americans were “largely assimilated, happy with their lives… and decidedly American in their outlook, values and attitudes.” Since then it has become clear that American Muslims can be converted to terrorism too. Nidal Malik Hassan, born in America and an army major, killed 13 of his comrades in a shooting spree at Fort Hood. Faisal Shahzad, a legal immigrant, tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square. But something about America—the fact that it is a nation of immigrants, perhaps, or its greater religiosity, or the separation of church and state, or the opportunities to rise—still seems to make it an easier place than Europe for Muslims to feel accepted and at home. It was in part to preserve this feeling that George Bush repeated like a scratched gramophone record that Americans were at war with the terrorists who had attacked them on 9/11, not at war with Islam. Barack Obama has followed suit: the White House national security strategy published in May says that one way to guard against radicalisation at home is to stress that “diversity is part of our strength—not a source of division or insecurity.” This is hardly rocket science. America is plainly safer if its Muslims feel part of “us” and not, like Mohammad Sidique Khan, part of “them”. And that means reminding Americans of the difference—a real one, by the way, not one fabricated for the purposes of political correctness—between Islam, a religion with a billion adherents, and al-Qaeda, a terrorist outfit that claims to speak in Islam’s name but has absolutely no right or mandate to do so. Why would any responsible American politician want to erase that vital distinction? Good question. Ask Sarah Palin, or Newt Gingrich, or the many others who have lately clambered aboard the offensive campaign to stop Cordoba House, a proposed community centre and mosque, from being built in New York two blocks from the site of the twin towers. Every single argument put forward for blocking this project leans in some way on the misconceived notion that all Muslims, and Islam itself, share the responsibility for, or are tainted by, the atrocities of 9/11. In a tweet last month from Alaska, Ms Palin called on “peaceful Muslims” to “refudiate” the “ground-zero mosque” because it would “stab” American hearts. But why should it? Cordoba House is not being built by al-Qaeda. To the contrary, it is the brainchild of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a well-meaning American cleric who has spent years trying to promote interfaith understanding, not an apostle of religious war like Osama bin Laden. He is modelling his project on New York’s 92nd Street Y, a Jewish community centre that reaches out to other religions. The site was selected in part precisely so that it might heal some of the wounds opened by the felling of the twin towers and all that followed. True, some relatives of 9/11 victims are hurt by the idea of a mosque going up near the site. But that feeling of hurt makes sense only if they too buy the false idea that Muslims in general were perpetrators of the crime. Besides, what about the feelings, and for that matter the rights, of America’s Muslims—some of whom also perished in the atrocity? ... No such plea of mitigation can be entered on behalf of Mr Gingrich. The former Republican speaker of the House of Representatives may or may not have presidential pretensions, but he certainly has intellectual ones. That makes it impossible to excuse the mean spirit and scrambled logic of his assertion that “there should be no mosque near ground zero so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia”. Come again? Why hold the rights of Americans who happen to be Muslim hostage to the policy of a foreign country that happens also to be Muslim? To Mr Gingrich, it seems, an American Muslim is a Muslim first and an American second. Al-Qaeda would doubtless concur.

As no one noticed that the raise in dog attacks follows the raise of street gangs dealing drugs? The two go hand in hand. In the 30's, 40's and 50's pit bulls were the most popular family dog in this country. The goverment used the pit bull as the symbol of courge and national pride in WW1. They were used as nanny dogs to protect the childern of fram families and the first army dog was a pit mix nammed Stubby. He was given severl medals, the rank of SRG. and honored in the white house. Do something about the human element in all of these attacks and they will stop and the pit bull can again be the bright star of the dog world they were at one time.

Who will stop Israel after they killed 60 members of one family today? Israeli soldiers gather 30 persons from Al Samoni family in one house. Ten families were in the house from the same clan. Many civilians were killed as artillery shells bombed the house. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4143303/Israel-strike-kills-up-to-60-members-of-one-family.html Dozens of bodies are believed to remain under the rubble of a large house hit repeatedly by Israeli shelling in the incident. The International Committee of the Red Cross has formally requested permission from the Israeli army to visit the scene of the attack to establish the exact scale of the slaughter. Israel has so far not granted permission to the ICRC due to ongoing fighting. Palestinian ambulances have also tried to reach the scene but it remains too dangerous. Several ambulances have been hit by Israeli shelling and at least seven paramedics killed.

Should we abolish Dept of veterans affairs since everything about it is socialist? They provide free medical,health care,housing for Army veterans specially the ones that are disabled on our tax dollors. As Conservatives would say.Why don't these people get a job and stop living on our hard earned tax dollor and welfare LOL I love the conservative responses.

Is there a way to remain a sane army wife-hermit while living in Uijeongbu, South Korea? This isn't a clinical issue I'm dealing with here, but I'm rather HIGHLY unhappy and uncomfortable with people. Especially english speaking people. Back at home in Virginia I rarely left my house, wouldn't even stop my car to get gas if it meant seeing a living soul, and was rather quite content hiding in my home safe and unbothered by people's words and thoughts.. Well a bit before I came over to join my husband, here in Korea, I was outside of a gas station hiding in a friend's jeep, waiting for him to come back with some alcohol (no worries I'm of age, just petrified of public) when I noticed two people speaking rapidly. I went to "freak out", when I soon came to discover that they were in fact not speaking any English and then I became immediately calm and delighted with the idea that I had no idea what they were carrying on about.. so the very idea of being in a foreign country where no one would understand me and vice versa, was VERY exciting! Then I get here, and discover that I was right! I love walking around this city, I love seeing Korean people ignoring me left and right...then BAM, there's Camp Red Cloud. The place that we (my husband and I) unfortunately have to venture to more often than not and it's pretty unbearable. I feel like I'm back home and scared again. To make it worse it seems like everyone we meet, *shudder* other couples are constantly bombarding us with, "Oh we won't let you stay cooped up in that apartment all day! You'll have to come out to see the city, you'll hang out with other army wives! Here, here get our number!" And I grip my man's hand, grit my teeth, and shout things in my skull. Things that are irrational when these people are just trying they're best to comfort me in this "hard" adjusting time. I'm doing just fine. Whose to say who I am and that I want anything to do with anyone? I didn't come here to be with the strangers that surround my husband and his job. I came here to see him and hide away from all that was America, in our lovely unfurnished apartment! I would like to know if I'm killing myself mentally or is it possible that all of the people I've turned down and ignored countless times have no idea who I am and how I can be? As I write this I feel immature and rude, but please, hidden Americans in South Korea, hear my/read my words and tell me if you've been hiding as well??

Do you like my story? ? IF YOU CAN READ IT AND RATE 1-10; 10 BEING THE BEST.. THANKS It was July 11, 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, almost three years after the first Serb invasion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Serbian Army was ordered under Serbian war leader, Radovan Karadzic to massacre every Muslim civilian in Srebrenica, a town in the Eastern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. They tortured, raped, and massacred more than 10,000 Bosnian people, most of whom were men. Men were seen as the stronger sex and they had to be destroyed, because otherwise, they would fight back and this would cause even more conflict. During the three year period, my parents and I lived in Srebrenica along with most of my aunts, uncles, and cousins. We all shared our home since it was much cheaper for electricity and heat during the winter. We shared food and worked together to survive each and every day. Living together made us feel safe and secure. We felt that no one could hurt us in any way. For as long as we had each other, everything would be fine. However, we would soon find out that our happy moments were close to coming to an end. The Serbian Army raided through Srebrenica, burning down houses and building and forcing people out of their homes and when the innocent people tried to run from the soldiers, they would kill them. I did not see one person who was able to run away. Next stop was our house. My aunts and uncles were upstairs in the house and the soldiers found them and took them outside. That was the last time I ever saw them. My parents and I were able to escape down to our basement, praying to God that the soldier raiding our house would not find us. We heard the soldier yelling in the house for anyone to come out. We were sure he was going to find us right away, but he didn’t. He walked out of the house and went to our next door neighbor. Hiding in that basement with my parents was one of the scariest moments of my life. It was only a matter of time and they would come to the basement and find us. I wished someone would just find us and kill us already because the pain of waiting was too hard to deal with. Eventually they were going to find us and kill us, so why not let it be sooner than later? Any second one of the soldiers could check the basement an shoot us or worse, torture us. Torture was much worse. I saw how one of the soldiers took a Sledgehammer and beat our neighbor torturing him from feet to head, beating every inch of his body until he beat the life out of him. This made me so sick to my stomach. I constantly had to throw up. My parents held me in their arms and told me not to worry. They told me that whatever happens now is in God’s hands. They both cried softly. All Thanks to God, because my parents and I escaped this brutal world. We came to the United States shortly after escaping from the basement. My life in the United States is one I could not even dream of in that basement. I have my parents and my whole life ahead of me. I do not have to be scared for my life anymore. I have so much opportunity to live a good life in the United States and to make my parents proud of who I become. They moved to the United States for me so that I can live the better life. My family means the world to me. In that basement I almost lost them. If I lose them, I lose everything.

HeLp My CaT WiLl NoT sToP PeEiNg On ThE CoUcH!!!!!!? Since my husband left for training (Army) HIS CAT WILL NOT STOP PEEING ON THE COUCH! At first I thought is was because she missed someone being home for 10 hours a day no one was home. Then i quit my job and she is STILL DOING IT only now she does it while i am in bed not while i am up. Her litter is the same her food has SLOWLY CHANGED she was on kitten and moved her to indoor nothing else has changed she has ALMOST RUINED the couch she has peed on it so much! I've tried all the urine removers I even wrapped the cushions in trashbags and then covered the couch with a blanket still nothing she pees to the back of the couch to where in is on the back and then runs down to under the cushions. So now the whole back of the couch and the underside is soaked in urine AGIAN this will be the 3rd time in 5 months I have had to completly strip the cushions and SCRUB the couch. HELP I AM GOING INSAINE!?!?!? My house stinks and I HATE IT. And YES her litter is clean and the vet says she is fine! Do you think maybe a litter box on the couch would help? I am open for any suggestions other than the obvious of getting rid of her. No this isnt where he sat it is where I sat I took over his spot out of missing him. Yes she is locked out of my bedroom at night but always has been we have had her since birth so that is nothing new to her. No visitors on the nights she does it and she usually sleeps on the other couch (where he held her and played with her). Nothing new at all on the nights she does it. Anymore that you need to know feel free to ask if it will help you help me lol. AND NO WORRIES I WILL NOT GET RID OF HER!!! She is his cat and that is HIS choice!

FOR PARENTS ONLY PLEASE!! How old is the limit for kids to stop taking baths together!? My husband is in the army and so when they go out into the field for weeks at a time, all of the wives spend a lot of time together. Recently I was at one of the other wives' houses and my 2 year old daughter and her 3 year old son were eating popsicles and playing outside. So, naturally when we brought them inside, we just threw them in the bath tub. My friend happened to have taken a picture of them playing and today my husband saw the picture on her myspace. Needless to say, he wasn't too happy about the picture. He yelled at me saying that there was no reason for them to be bathing together, but I think it's fine. I mean, they are toddlers. Which of us is right? Was I wrong to let my daughter take a bath with that other little boy or is my husband exaggerating? Another thing I failed to mention, I honestly thought I had told my husband that they had taken a bath together because I don't like to keep any secrets or anything from him, and another was that I didn't think the picture would end up on myspace, I truthfully don't even remember seeing the picture taken but obviously it was (But it didn't show anything, and they weren't facing eachother, they were facing the same direction, toward the right of the tub so I know neither of them saw anything)

Can someone please translate this into proper Spanish? I am not allowed to use Google Translate, so can you please translate this into proper Spanish please? Thank you. In one legend, Tómas de Zumalacarregui created the “Tortilla de Patatas” as an easy quick nutritive dish to feed the Carlist army during Bilbao's siege. Other sources state that it was an anonymous housewife, in whose house the previously mentioned Zumalacarregui stopped by; The poor woman who had nothing to offer but eggs, potatoes and onions, scrambled all that, which turned to please the general, who would later make it popular.

Need advice: How is it fair that she judges me for the fact that I'm pregnant and she's not? I am 27 and pregnant with my 3rd baby due on May 22, 2010. I have a 3 year old daughter and 1 year old son. We want 4. My problem is my 28 year old cousin. She's trying to have a baby and can't get pregnant because she found out she has one ovary. She is starting fertility treatments next month after finding out last month. Here's my beef: I tried for 4 years too! My husband was told at 6% normal sperm that we'd never have children naturally and that if we did it'd be a very slim to not possible chance. We got pregnant about 3 months after being told this naturally. We figured that because it took that long that it would take a long time again, WRONG. My two oldest are 23 months apart and the second and third will be 20 months apart. Last weekend we went to her house for the Canadian thanksgiving. She invited the whole family so we went (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc). She told my other cousin in front of my husband how she was jealous of us and giggled. A week later I found out that she told our aunt that she THINKS that we don't deserve a third child because we are living with my Mother in her basement and don't have a lot of money and that she does deserve to have a baby because she's got her house paid for that she built with her husband AND they have the money. We moved in with my Mom because my husband is joining the army and I would like to be with family when he moves. He has been laid off because construction here isn't as strong. With the recession there aren't a lot of jobs here. He finally got another one about a month ago and we finally have some more money coming in (more than EI). She's telling everyone in our family this little tidbit of info except me and I think she's being a b**** about it. It's not my fault she was born that way and it's not my fault that she can't get pregnant naturally. She's even said crap about her other cousin on her Dad's side being pregnant and due on Jan 1st. She does have a nice house, lots of money and drinks a bottle of wine a day. Personally I can't say what I really think on here, but what would you do in this case? She can't be happy for others, but maybe it's God's will or karma. She always acts perfect and thinks she's the greatest and brags NON stop about her house, her husband and the fact that she only works part time and has such a great life. I complimented her house and I avoided talking about the baby at all. She couldn't stop bringing it up. She kept sneering that I couldn't drink and would laugh. What would you do with a cousin like this? I just want to ex her off facebook and ignore her forever. Thanks for letting me vent. I feel SO much better now. I feel so hurt and stressed out that she could be so shallow and think of me this way. Our other cousins both have four and three children and I don't really see how I could be her choice of enemy.

should i tell him how i feel? about two years ago i was in a relationship with this boy and we clicked automatically and every thing was going great until i was raped one night walking to the bus stop from his house about two days after i told him he came to me and said he didn't believe me so i ended our relation ship about three weeks later i found out i was pregnant by him and i told him and he said its up to me on what i wanted to do i wasn't sure what i wanted to do cause i was young but three months into the pregnancy i had a miscarriage and me and him lost contact.i seen him around once in a while and always wanted to tell him i still had feeling for him but couldn't bring my self to do it.when we were together he carved a K in his arm for my name.now recently i met this girl in school and me and her became real close and one day we were just talking about our ex's and i brought him up and she was like omg your the K on his arm he was in love with you. blah blah and all this other shit so i told her why me and him wasn't still together and he told her that it wasn't that he didn't believe me its that he couldn't except it and now he got back with his ex who cheated on him countless times and joined the army and has a kid on the way when i see him should i tell him how i feel and that when he left me and i felt like he deserted me when i need him the most and how he never asked me how i was doing after i lost the baby or should i just wake up and realize he isn't good enough for me and go on my way?

When Mighty Israelis Will Stop Fighting Unarmed Women and Children to Honor Nazi Atrocities? When Mighty Israelis Will Stop Fighting Unarmed Women and Children to Honor Nazi Atrocities? http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/03/201032614425654668.html Israeli troops killed in Gaza clash Hamas attributes Friday's clash to rising tensions in occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem [Reuters] Two Israeli soldiers and at least one Palestinian have been killed in a clash east of the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. The Israeli military said on Friday that there was an exchange of fire on the border after soldiers challenged Palestinians planting bombs near the separation barrier. The military said an officer and a soldier have been killed and two soldiers were injured. Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it was responsible for taking on the Israeli patrol. Responding to the latest violence, Israel's defence minister issued a veiled threat to Hamas. "We have been used to seeing breakaway (Palestinian) groups doing the firing, and Hamas trying to calm things down. Possibly it is loosening its grip, for all sorts of reasons," Ehud Barak told Israeli television on Friday. "Should that indeed prove to be the case, then there will also be ramifications for Hamas," he said, but added: "We have no interest in returning the region to what was in the past." Hamas response "An Israeli army force raided 500 metres into Palestinian territory, and was confronted by our gunmen," Abu Obeida, a Hamas spokesman, said. "This was our work, but was carried out for defence." in depth Video: Israel pursues settlement growth Israelis protest settlement freeze Map of East Jerusalem housing plan Focus: Jerusalem's religious heart Settlements strain US-Israel ties Jewish settlements Riz Khan: The Middle East peace process The battle over Israeli settlements Inside Story: US and Israel poles apart Programmes: Israel: Rise of the right Holy Land Grab Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips, reporting from Gaza, said: "The al-Qassam Brigades gave a press conference and said that at 2:30pm local time an Israeli incursion began into Gaza. Israeli soldiers on foot, tanks and helicopters crossed into Gaza and the al-Qassam Brigades responded with sniper fire. "Witnesses in the area are saying that what took place is now over; it is quiet and Israeli tanks have withdrawn. "Palestinian medical sources have told us three injured civilians have been taken to a hospital nearby," he said. Witnesses said Friday's exchange of fire began when an explosion, possibly caused by an anti-armour rocket fired from the nearby Palestinian town of Khan Younis, hit an Israeli army patrol on the central Gazan border. Backed by tanks, the troops fired back at their assailants and entered Gazan territory, the witnesses said. Such pursuits are common practise for the Israelis, who try to maintain a buffer zone within the border fence off-limits to Palestinians. Our correspondent said Hamas officials in Gaza acknowledge the increase in tension that is "in some ways related, of course, to the situation in Jerusalem". "Hamas say that they are at pains overall not to incite the Israeli army at this point in time and that they don't want trouble," he said. The witnesses also said that, during the fighting, Israeli soldiers took away a wounded comrade and helicopters came to the scene, apparently for medical evacuations.

Why do people try to persuade me not to join the U.S. Army? One or two of my friends have an argument with me sometimes over whether or not I should join the military (I plan on joining the U.S. Army, I'm in 10th grade).For instance, I only take some, not all, advanced classes in school because I don't want to fall behind in some of the advanced class and begin to make bad grades. At the same time, some of my regular classes are sometimes easy to me, but that helps my grades stay up. My friends tell me that since I don't take all advanced classes like them, then I won't be able to join the military. Heads, up though, I don't play sports, but I have lifted weights from 6th to 9th grade, I didn't receive that class this year, and in 9th grade I was in a football player weight training class, making it harder than others, and I pushed and was pushed to my limits often but I made it all year. They also try to tell me that even if I join the infantry, if I'm deployed somewhere and nothing is happening, I will be doing pencil work and work that requires book smart skills, which I don't believe at all. When I bring up the fact that although the pay is small, the military pays for all the essentials such as clothing,food,housing,taxes,bills and other things, they tell me I'm lazy and I don't want to pay for those things myself. That's not true either, and not only that, no one really wants to spend their hard earned money on some of these things anyway. They also tell me that if I was serious about joining the military, I would be in ROTC, but I'm concentrating on the academic credits and other credits I need for school so I can graduate.The point is, they try to tell me the military is a bad option and after this, they come back and say, "We're just trying to help with our opinions." I am physically fit, and I do push ups and sit ups and other forms of all body workouts every other night, (i.e. Monday, then Tuesday, then Thursday, etc.) and I plan on doing so until I join, where basic will take it from there. I've wanted to join the military since I was about five years old, I'm heart set on it, and I don't believe that the things the say will stop me, but I want other peoples opinion on this.

How can i make this paragraph shorter? o All Yahoo answer user this paragraph explains the Norman defence system, also is this paragraph good writing or bad? The superior conqueror of England, displayed his triumph victory of the Battle of Hastings on a tapestry, called “The Bayeux Tapestry.” The tapestry explained the story of how William became king of England. Norman castles are shown in our tapestry, as its one of the best substantial defense systems used by the Normans. After William won the battle of Hastings, he needed to take order of his new kingdom. When William became king of England he was not control of all England, as some England cities such as London were still populated by Saxons. William’s army was forced to crush many rebellions to take over England. During century of 1069-70 was the time of the “Harrying of the North,” a period where William’s army moved north, burning villages, crops, destroying houses, murdering locals. Wooden castles were built later, but then re-developed into steel castles (wooden castles are flammable). The castles took affect after conquering new cities. They were built outside Saxon towns, to stop Saxons from raising an army and preventing rebellions. Defeated Saxons were forced to build the castles. The Saxons hated the Normans, as they were treated harshly and they took their land. Castles had been built on the best location. Normans added essential defense techniques for castles by having moats to prevent floods, mottes (large hill to prevent invaders from attacking), bridges, bailey (small village by castle), gateways, and archer towers. During war, and the battle of Hastings, the Normans had a unique defense tactic. Horses were dominant. A charging horse could drive a lance through an enemies shield, and extra height gave a knight a longer swing of its sword. Normans weld wooden shields, daggers, spears, crossbows, clubs, battle-axes, and javelins. They had specific soldiers; archers, knights, soldiers on foot, and attackers. Our tapestry and William’s tapestry included distinctive and unique symbols. One distinctive symbol is weapons, including swords, shields, and crossbows. These weapons were intimidating. it symbolized power of the army, strength, and resistance. A soldier is another symbol that expresses cooperation and group defense. Hawks are commonly shown in the tapestry, which represents freedom, and predator, or in other words power. Castles displayed represent the Norman community, intimidation, and defense. The symbol that was extremely useful was mighty sailboats, which symbolized transportation and to hold cargo. Another source of transportation was the symbol of a horse, which also helped soldiers to fight. A commonly repeated symbol was the livestock to feed the community, such as cows, pigs, sheep, and goat. Overall the Normans were omnipotent, and had productive defense tactics, which interested me to choose this topic. In my opinion I believe that the Normans had a masterful defense system, which allowed them to take over England, stop rebellions, and never allow England to be invaded again. The Normans war tactics influenced their technique to medieval clans, to neighboring countries, and today it gave us an idea of the Normans lifestyle, and how they managed to defend and keep their long lasting, English civilization.

My idea if they made another Mummy movie? tell me if they are any good please? Okay I would name it The Mummy Vengeance. They had killed The Dragon Emperor. Alex has a son named Jermaine. Jermaine is his new son and he is Twelve years old. Alex's father and mother had died. They were searching through Egypt. Alex had his own house. They went to the Pyramid to see if they could check it out. Alex had told his son Jermaine to stay with him. They went investigating the Pyramid. Jermaine decided to go by himself and run off while Alex was carrying a torch. Jermaine kept running into the dark until finally he bumped into something hard stumbling backwards to the ground. He could no longer see the torches on the walls. He found a room filled with Sarcophaguses. And there was a large stream in the pyramid filled with black water. He was really thirsty and he regreted he hadn't stayed with his father. He reached his hands into the black filthy water and felt something hard. He brought his hands and pulled and held a mummified corpse. His father found him and scolded him. They found the mummy and Alex said to himself, "Imoteph.". He took it to the museum and they had an extra Sarcophagus that was actually empty so they put the corpse in the Sarcophagus. Alex knew it was a matter of time before some one was going to rise Imoteph. So at night there was a man who stole the corpse for his English Class. He was using the Book Of The Dead at night and studied it with his own eyes very hard. He concentrated on every word to see what they meant. He read from the book, the words of the dead. Imoteph reawoke and got up on his legs. The guy turned around as he saw the mummy get up. He screamed. The mummy's eyes were hallow. The mummy killed the guy replacing his hallow eyes with the eye balls of the guy. Imoteph then consulted with Iscis the goddess to give him back his powers. Imoteph then roamed the ancient desert once again. Imoteph put on a cloath with the hood on. He wore a mask to hide his mummified face. He carried the Book Of The Dead and he opened it reading every word. The Sarcophaguses behind the glass shook and bursted open as they jumped out and broke through the glass. They kneeled before Imoteph. He attacked a mortal absorbing his flesh from his only bones. He let the skeleton fall to the ground. Anubis returned with his army to stop Imoteph. His undead army was putting Imoteph king of the undead. Imoteph was planning how him and his army shall kill everybody and he shall rule the world. One of his souldiers betrayed him and stabbed with a pitch fork. Imoteph ordered his army to kill the souldier. They did as they were told. They chopped the souldier in half. Alex decided he was going to put an end to Imoteph before Anubis did. So he grabbed his shot gun. He ran outside leaving Jermaine inside the house by himself. One of Ihmotep's souldiers stole the boy and brought him back to him. Alex saw Imoteph with his boy so he snuck the book of Amun Ra, he read from it. Imoteph's souldiers stood still. Alex ordered that they would kill Imoteph. Two souldiers grabbed him from his arms and raised him high. The ground shook and opened up as a pit filled with black creatures and lava. Imoteph vowed that he would be back. Jermaine escaped and ran to his father Alex. The two souldiers threw Imoteph in as all of the souldiers faded to dust. The ground swallowed Imoteph. Anubis's army came running at Alex and his son Jermaine. Then they all faded to dust. The entire city shook as buildings began to collapse into eachother. Alex and Jermaine ran as fast as they could. Alex grabbed his son Jermaine and got inside the truck watching the collapsing city and hoping they would stay safe. Buildings began to fall a part as Alex and his own son were safe. Tell me if you thought this was good.

Got Order's to Ft. Lewis but can't find the answers I'm looking for? My husband called me yesterday and told me that when he went in for reenlistment he got his dream job at his dream post. He's being stationed in the hospital at Ft. Lewis (he's from WA). That's all great but when I'm going to the Army one-stop website for assistance trying to look around the area...one big problem. There are a lot of little cities around and the maps aren't helping me much and where would be a good location for us to look for a place to live. I'm not finding anything on school ratings, commute calculators, I know I'm just stressing. His mother lives right next to the Mccord gate in Lakewood and says we need to live there (i think she just wants to be close to her grand-kid and mama's boy) So I would like to have an idea ahead of time before we get there so I don't have to look for assistance from in-laws. Anyone around Ft. Lewis know around where we should look, not a lot of crime, or ghetto. My husband will be an E-6 when we get there. We're looking to rent a house not an apartment since we have a dog. Thanks everyone!

Are you a real Harry Potter fan? If you cannot answer 100% of the following questions, then you are NOT a real Potter fan. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry was on the Hogwarts Express and was attacked by a Dementor for the first time, how long was Harry passed-out on the floor for? (Down to the last second, please.) In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, what did Harry have for breakfast on the morning of the first Quidditch match? (Gryffindor vs. Slytherin.) In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in the chapter titled "The Triwizard Tournament", what House was Eleanor Branstone Sorted into? In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Dobby the House Elf stopped Harry from recieving the letters that his friends from Hogwarts sent him. Just how many letters were there total that Dobby kept Harry from getting? In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry, Ron, and Hermione set up an organization called "Dumbledore's Army". At the end of one of the group meetings for Dumbledore's Army, Harry and another student from Ravenclaw, Cho Chang, kiss. How long did the kiss last? In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry's Uncle Vernon buys a gun to protect himself and his family against "Harry's lot". What was the brand of the gun? In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Fred Weasly died after being crushed by the rubble from an explosion in the wall. What floor of Hogwarts was Fred on when this happened? Thank you for answering this. And remember, if you can't get every one of these questions correct, then you are NOT are real Harry Potter fan. @Apple Frost- Haha! I love you! @Joshms- Well, that was sorta my point. Actually, I'm not really sure what my point was. I guess I just wanted to see how people would react:p And I saw a question a lot like this one earlier, so I'm partly making fun of the guy who asked the original one.. @renee- I couldn't agree more:) Tsk, tsk, so far NONE of you meet the standards of a real Harry Potter fan! I'm disappointed.

Stressed army wife in need of marital advice? My husband and I aren't getting along lately and the reasons why are so stupid. I have tried to rationalize with him about our issues, I have taken steps to try to improve but its just not good enough. He is very obsessive compulsive about everything being neat and orderly in our house. Now I love a clean house just like any normal person, but we have an 18 month old daughter and a 4 year old daughter who like to drag out toys and dress up clothes all day long. I work full time and take care of 2 kids and keep a clean home, but if he finds anything out of place, for example a piece of opened mail on the counter or a few of the kids toys on the living room floor, he looks at me and says "this house is a mess, you haven't done anything in here". I try very hard, I even make a list of chores to do during the day before I go to work and I check each one off the list to show him exactly what has been done everyday. My mother takes care of the kids when I leave for work at 2:30 pm and he gets home around 7 pm to take over the kids from her. They go to bed by 9pm so he only has to take care of them for 2 hours. I have them from 7am until 2:30 pm and the whole time I have them I am cleaning house and picking up toys and doing laundry and when he comes home there is nothing left for him to do but go to bed. He expects too much from me, and shows so little appreciation for all I do, it's like it goes unnoticed. I talked to him the other night about how obsessive he was and that he should be a little more greatfull for all I do for our home and while working full time outside the home. I understand he has a hard job being in the army, but so do I with the house, the kids and my job. He thinks I have it so easy and he also says "its your job". That to me is very disrespectfull to say it is my job to do everything I do plus working 40 hours a week. I don't do it because its "my job", I do it to show that I love my husband and I care about our home and having a clean enviroment for our little ones to live in. But he is just so picky and if he sees one thing out of place, then the whole house is a mess to him. I got so frustrated with being treated like the house maid instead of a wife that I threw my wedding rings across the room and told him I didn't deserve to be treated this way and he didn't deserve to have me. He and I decided to live separately for a little while to see if we could calm down and work things out at a later time. We have an arrangement, he is staying in our RV in the back yard and I am in the house with the kids, when I am at work he comes in the house and spends time with the girls until they go to bed and I get home at 11:30 pm. I still love him because we have children together and we have been together for 8 years and we have survived 3 deployments overseas. That's a lot of history and love and I can't just give up so easy, when I still believe that we could work it out. How do I get him to stop being so obsessive and see what really matters in life isn't weather or not the house is spotless, what really matters is that you have someone to share your love with and kids who are happy to see you come in the door. Any advice would be helpfull.

any good ghost stories?? :D? I came to South Korea to be with my husband whom is in the Army. I have been here for 5 months. I have been living in my apartment for over four months. About two and a half months ago I started getting the icy felling like I was being watched. This went on with no happenings until last night. My husband is training in the field. I am all alone in the house, just like any other night I got changed, went into bed and called my husband. I got to sleep around 12:30am. I slept for about two hours when I started having a dream that I have had before. But instead of what normally happened in the dream, an unknown force was on my back with two handfulls of my hair, holding me down. I woke up to find that my head where, in my dream, this force had my hair. I blew it off thinking it was my imagination. I fell back asleep a short time later. The dream resumed where it had left off. This happened one more time before I decided to just stay awake. It was about 5:00 in the morning, I am not exactly sure. I heard a Korean man's voice talking, it was very deep, I could not make out any words that I know. It sounded as if he were hissing the words. By this time I was already terrified. I heard knocking, and my chairs being scooted around. This went on for about an hour. Then it started scratchng my walls. It started soft and short at first, I ignored it until it got harder and louder increasing a lot everytime. Finally I could not take it any more it felt like my heart was going to burst, it was beating so hard. I got up and turned on all the lights in the house. It stopped. I got dressed and looked around to find all my chairs moved, little things moved, and then I saw the scratch marks on the wall. I was about 6:30 in the morning when I left. I am looking for another apartment. There is no way that I am going to stay there and let it keep getting worse and more violent.

can my dad stop me..? im 16. i have a "friend" ((not dating yet. but we have been talking for at least 6 months)) thats in the army. hes 18. i told my dad about him. and i told him that he was coming in for christmas. and i wanted to hang out with him. he told me he didnt think it was a good idea..cause he prolly only wants one thing. but my dad has never met him before. well wen he came home i asked my dad if i could go hang out with him one day and he told me no. prolly cause my dad didnt know him..but my dad has let me go with this one guy that was my age before..so i called my mom and asked her how could i change my dads mind and she told me to just come over to her house and she would let me go hang out with himi for the day.((i havent talked to my mom in about 6 months. and i just started talkin to her new years night..and i was gonna go see her the next day.i figured it was a new year so put everything behind me and not worry about and move on..)) and now i feel like my mom thinks i only went over there to go see him. and i told her thats not why i went over there. but i still feel like she thinks that..and can my dad stop me from talking to the guy in the army??((i dont think he will say to much because i ithink he is afraid that i will move in with my mom)) but still he dont come home from the army till 2011..and my dad said thats when i can talk to him and go and hang out with him.. cause im goin to be 18 so i can do what i want then..but can he stop me now??

Why is Indian army still using rape as a tool to terrorise Kashmiri people to put down legitimate revolution ? Indian army is still adopting RAPE as a tool of terrorising peace loving people of DISPUTED TERRITORY Kashmir to put down legitimate revolution against Indian illegal occupation by massive military force as it was doing so since 1990 which was given a go ahead SPECIAL secret ORDER since 1991 whem P V Narsimha Rao was Indian prime minister as exposed by Asiaweek in March 1993, in the book Kashmir Imprisoned by Suhasini Mulay, Nandita Haksar, Saqueera Hasan & Premila Lewis of CFIK, New Delhi, reports of top humna rights activists like Inder Mohan, Gautam Navlakha & Justice V M Tarkunde. On 29 th May, 2009, two women 17 & 22 of Shopian district of south Kashmir went to their orchards & never returned. Their bodies were traced in canals. Medical reports confirmed GANG RAPES. On 16 th June, 2007, during a search operation in Sopore, two army men entered a house & ordered all inhabitents to leave but asked a 17 year old girl to stay in. She shouted. Locals caught armymen, took off their shirts & paraded in the city. Ten days later, similar incident happened in Bandipur locality. Again after two weeks, similar thing happened in Gandarbal city. Shopian is in the backward area of Kashmir which is rich in natural beauties all along the 60 km road & nearby. There is a very big , wide & extremely beautiful waterfall called Aharbal nearby. Last year I visited & know well how much the army harasses for tourists & discourage all. We could reach Shopian & Aharbal with very great difficulties all along. Our vehicle was stopped at over 23 places & the attitudes of armymen were very-very bad. They were demanding to forefeit camera as well as entire money, tiffin careers, water bottles & bags even. Even children are terrorised by their threatening comments & remarks. I have visited many girl's schools too in Srinagar & local hospitals whenever I visited Kashmir & listened so many cases of harassments of female Muslims of Kashmir. One big trader of Kashmiri carpets etc told me that if in some house a girl is there & by chance if armymen comes to know of the fact that the male member has gone out of town for few days even, the army men never leave that girl & rape multiple number of times. He too was having an 18 year old daughter. He says that he was leaving her to the house of his brother, if he goes out of Srinagar even for a day. So, the situiation is very grave. And that too is happening when as per UN Charter, India has NO RIGHT to put even a single army man in the disputed territory. Is not that goondaism ? Shouldn't all Indian IMPOSED draconian INHUMAN DICTATORIAL acts be repealed & Indian army be removed from the zone where it is stationed ILLEGALLY ? Can India win over people's hearts by adopting such horrible actions ? Remeber, India has NO locus standii on the state(UNSC Resolution dated 5 th Jan., 1949 to 24 th Jan., 1957) & people in a DISPUTED territory have legitimacy of revolution against illegal occupation but Shopian ladies were NOT doing even that. Does India deserve to keep Kashmir by adopting such heinous actions for last 20 years ? If you see UN reports particularly of Sir Dixon's period, it is clear that India was not allowed to keep more than 22,000 troops for maintaining law & order, NOT for killing locals & FINALLY to be withdrawn gradually from the state. Isn't illegal to keep >10,00,000 troops in so small area giving free hands unaccounted violating human rights ? Border villages of Kupwara like Chhitkari, Konan Poshpora & Trehgam are worst affected. Armymen ask villagers to give abt 10 litres of milk, 10 chickens, 2 goats per day free of cost & two white girls per week for enjoying sex. On slightest refusal, they go berserk, loot houses & do anything. Village Konan Poshpora saw worst on 22/23 Feb., 1991when 3 generations of females aged 7 to 70 years, abt 80 women were gang raped by Rajputana Rifles. FIR was lodged too. People abandoned that village named later as Rape Village. Azad Kashmir(PoK) has its own army of 1,50,000 local troops. But there is no such freedom movement there & no army artrocity. Even if there is similar freedom movement in Azad Kashmir & army of Pak does atrocities, it will be a crime. From that area too, Pak army(not local one) is to be withdrawn in synchronisation with Indian army as per UNSC resolutions. IKS publications of Srinagar has issued thick books on such atrocities & www.kashmirnews.com too has sufficient reports. Actually, the Indian there is highly communalised by strong communal training to do anything worst possible selectively against Muslim population of Kashmir. The armymen are criminals of MP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharastra & Andhra Pradesh, belonging to most backward & downtrodden localities of interiors where people eat jungle rats, frogs, cats & even ants' eggs. They're instructed to gang rape young girls as a Sikh soldier told me. In2008, 1000 new boys returned from army training camp in Jammu as they were being trained for sexual assaults. They uttered on TV channels that they too were sexually assaulted at the name of training. 'Templars...' must visit Kashmir Valley now to see himself everything in interior villages of Kupwara, Shopian, Pulwama, Gurez, Taragbal & Titwal to see what difficulty he faces even for visiting there. He is advised to make an identity card of false Muslim name to see the difference in attitude of the armymen himself. I was told that MOSSAD has taught & not CIA as few think but rogue Indian army is much worse than them. All are sex hungry & badly anti-Muslim communal of RSS brand. I've seen ladies police but not army women. The man eater army of black & ugly looking Nagaland tribals are the worst. They consumed scores of local persons. Soft flesh of children are their most liked food. I've seen them in Sopore town, the apple capital of the world. Shouldn't UN act against such inhuman army ? Otherwise, what is the way out ?

My brother...? Joing army.? My brother is joining the army, i have 3 brothers, he is the oldest in the house (besides my parents. He is 20 yeas old.) And he is planing on joining the army. I don't know why. He has never been out in the real life, he is just a video game addict. But lately he has been going out side and getting exercise and everything. Well right now he is laying down out side with my dog molly. And i am just looking at him starting to tear up. I don't want him to leave. He is the only one i am close to, everyone else in my house i don't get along with. I am 17. I am already wondering if he will make it. I am thinking of his fear, i am afraid for my brother. And i want him to make it back safe. I don't know the whole army process cause i know no one that joined the army before. It scares me. Has anyone lost a family member in war, I want to stop him, but i know i can't. Does anyone feel this fear everyday. What do you think of my situation? can anyone explain the army to me more in debt. thanks. Uhhmm i am not a guy, so no thanks. I am his little sister =)

My bf and I dated for few months .He lived with his Aunt and Uncle. I stopped kissing her butt one day? and she started hating me. She said I became a liar and etc. She told D {whose 23} to stop dating me. It worked for 3 months. They left him to go see her son in the Army. He had no way to go anywhere and very little food. Well he moved out of the house and in with his Great uncle. This tore the family apart. His Gma was the only one who talked to me besides hiis Dads side. My bf was on the phone with her and she started bashing me. My bfs truck he just got Mon. went to the shop he told her that the guy said he could take it back which he didnt but she was like well why didnt you because Jamie said not to? Then she asked him who was taking care of his checkbook so he said me which both of our names are on it and she was like well you need to get someone else to do that. I am so upset right now I cant sleep. I dont know if the family telling her stuff or what but the day before this she acted like a good friend. Now she is doing this stuff. What action do I take from here? I am so mad. Someone also wrote a $400 check out my bfs old account recently. His so called Aunt and uncle still have that book. His Gma said Derek did it but he closed the account and doesnt have any checks so we know it for sure wasn't Derek. Where should we go on this as well? I am about to write a very nasty letter to everyone but if this case ends up going to court I dont want the letter to come back and haunt us. I would also like to write one to his Gma and tell her not to judge what she is hearing because it is not true and that the only reason Jana hates me is because I stopped kissing her butt. Is this a good idea though? We dont even talk to the Aunt and Uncle anymore and they dont want to talk to us either. They have me so upset though that I am actually sick right now from it. Can I sue for emotional stress or something so I can get money to go talk to someone face to face and get me through this? Also do I now ignore the Grandma who is bashing me? We are now living together he makes a lot more then me and if he didnt stop seein me he got kicked out of the house and at that time had no where to go. Finally the chance came and his uncle told him to go ahead and move on in which he did and he called me right away.

Can i still claim job seeker allowance if i study 9 hours a week at university? Basically, i am studying 9 hours a week but the course title is Full-time Electronic Engineering (year 0). One of my biggest problems is that i am a homeless person, so i have to depend on Salvation Army (Homeless team) accommodation. In order to get a room in this hostel i must be on either JSK or other benefit systems. If my JSK is closed or suspended, my weekly housing benefit for Salvation Army will be automatically stopped as well. I then will get kicked out of this place and will become a homeless person again, who is going to one of top 5 universities in the UK and studying so hard on lessons, projects and university tests. I am now really scared because yesterday when i went to the job centre for signing, my personal advisor asked me to show official evidence like how many hours i am doing in a week etc. I also had to sign on other forms and express a crucial statement as well. In that form says my JSK might be suspended :( what do i do? shell i quit my amazing university?

How do I stop obsessing over someone else's life? I went to school with this girl and she graduated a yr before me. I was not very close friends with her but we were involved in the same sports so we talked once in awhile. I didn't pay much attention to her until i found out she was pregnant to her hs sweetheart in my first yr of college. Everyone including me was curious to see her baby b/c both parents are attractive. At first I felt bad for her then I found out they got married. Then I felt bad again b/c her hubby toured in Iraq for a yr. He came back and the last 4 yrs I've been obsessing. I look the pic of her family constantly wishing I had a fam. She turned an unplanned pregnancy into a good thing. Now they're married, have a House i think b/c he's in the army), beautiful, beautiful children. She has everything I want. Meanwhile, I've been in college for 4 yrs, I'm still not sure what Im gonna do, I commuted so I didn't have the college experience, I work so I have no time for fun, and Im home w/ parents which suck but I can't move b/c no $. I stopped obsessing when I had a new boyfriend, i don't have one anymore so now its more obsessing. The only time I realize that she may not have everything is when her hubby goes to Iraq she ALWAYS moves back w/ her parents. I don't think she has a deceit job b/c both of them never went to college. So how do I stop obsessing over her life? Should I limit looking at her pic once a month, read more what??? Is this normal? Help b/c this is embarrasing.

How many people have lost their jobs to illegals? I finally figured it out. I kept hearing about all those jobs Americans just won't do. We're never really told what they are, but I guess we should be happy they're getting done and stop complaining about all the negative aspects of having twenty million illegal aliens in our midst. Perhaps we should just accept the idea that 25 American citizens are going to continue to be killed every day by illegals - half of them by drunk drivers - because it's a small price to pay to get all those jobs done. We should get used to the idea that nearly four million children of illegals are filling our public schools, and that more than 300,000 illegal aliens are serving time in our prisons. There are another 640,000 illegals who should be in prison but aren't because they are fugitives. We're not paying to incarcerate them, so that's a plus, but unfortunately they are probably the ones responsible for killing those 25 Americans every day. And, of course, we are getting those jobs done. We really shouldn't complain about the resurgence of heretofore-eradicated diseases, including Tuberculosis and the plague. You've probably heard that bedbugs are also making a comeback. But it's okay, because we're getting all those jobs done. I guess we should be more than willing to pay the cost for illegals to flood our hospital emergency rooms for free service; and it's the least we can do to declare their babies born on our soil as American citizens. What else could a compassionate society do for people doing all those jobs for us? Americans should be happy to press one for English and to sort through multicultural instructions written in Spanish (and sometimes other languages) in order to find the English directions. But again, who else is going to do all those jobs? Snobby, self-indulgent Americans? I don't think so. I have to confess that I was less than thrilled recently to see my local super market put up new signs over their food aisles directing customers to the item of their choice in both English and Spanish. I found myself wondering how long it would take me to figure out in Mexico City that "Jalapeño" means "Pepper." But after I thought about all those jobs lazy, spoiled Americans (apparently including me) simply won't do, I realized it was well worth whatever inconvenience I might experience. To tell you the truth, I was at a loss to figure out which jobs the invading hordes of illegals actually were doing that my fellow Americans and I won't do. Oh, I know the usual answers, but those don't seem to be the jobs I see them doing. In fact, I see them roofing houses and making good money at it. I see them working hard at more and more skilled jobs that people I know personally would gladly do. Then, as I wrote at the beginning of this column, I finally figured it out. It was the story of the Fort Dix Six that finally made it all click for me. Six Muslim men were arrested for plotting to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. I have a photo hanging on my office wall of my father's Army platoon at Fort Dix . It is dated April 4, 1942. Fort Dix has been a primary jumping-off point for our troops headed overseas for generations, which, of course, is what made it such a tempting target. At least three of the Fort Dix Six were in this country illegally. They were brothers. They owned a roofing company. Again, that's not a job American workers won't do, so what could they possibly be doing here? That's when it hit me. Being a member of a terrorist cell is the one job Americans just won't do. Maybe we all need to contact our senators and representatives one more time about the travesty of justice currently coming up for a vote. If you do, please do it before it becomes law. Oh yeah, make sure to include the president on the list. Maybe, if all else fails, we can persuade him to, or coerce him into, a veto of this latest give away of our national sovereignty.

3 similar nightmares in one night? Basically, I had 3 similar dreams. 2 were End of the World scenarios. This happened all in one night aswell. I'll explain the dreams quite breifly. First one: It was like a natural disaster (Quite like 2012 the movie) and evrtyhing was blowing up, everything was falling into the earths crust and everyone! so I was basically running for my life and not ONE person of my family was in this. I then came accross this nice looking female and we were running the same ways etc.. we came to this kind of -dead end- place and we were surrounded. It was only like us left with everyone else dead surrounding us and she was about to fall into the earths crust, but I saved her then RANDOMLY woke up. 2nd dream: It was an apocalyptic style with Zombies, basically an outbreak started with alot of killings, Again I never saw my family and I was told of a safe place in the UK to go to before someone was infected (No idea how they got infected though) so atleast 100people or so began heading there and we found it, there was an army holding fortress against the so-called zombies. They allowed us in and eventually the zombies got in.. They took EVERYONE down except me and another army guy. by the time most of our men were down the army guy escorted me out and into an abandoned car and we began to drive. It ran out of petrol eventually but we were beside a car dealership. The army guy recommended me to jump in one of his cars (small Vauxhall Corsa or something) but I refused and jumped into something larger because I have 'ALWAYS' wanted to drive it (Vauxhall Meriva - funny thing is both of these cars I have been looking at for my 17th) so after we were following each other they began to be getting better - as in cured whilst we were driving along. I then woke up Third dream: This might sound racist but its not. Native Americans/Indians or whomever was skinning white people for their skin ofcourse, and supposingly the Army came to me and was offering to inject me with some sort of medicine and stop the enemies from taking me away and skinning me. But both of these men were wearing balaclavas which you barely could even see their eyes and my Mum was sent away as she couldn't get this medicine for some unknown reason, So I went into the house and they were about to inject me with it and then I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. (This happened at my very house I'm living right now?) Why did I have all these dreams in one night? Could it be because I'm in some kind of pain. (Sun burnt after Monday and Today working a 6hour shift) Could it be because I started work experience on Monday? (First time ever having a job) Also had a few aches (Muscle aches after all the heavy lifting but this shouldn't cause a problem) Any ideas guys? I mean, NO-ONE else showed up in any of my dreams except my mum in only one dream! I mean, my dad never showed up or my brother! Help? First dream: The girl looked like Emma Stone from Zombieland KINDA...

please interpret my dream....? Dream : I was in my audi and all the cars had guns on them and were shooting at each other. I was on my way to see my army recruiter. I saw this one car, it was yellow and really close to the ground that wasnt taking any damage at all. I stopped at these houses and they were telling me to fight back. So, I ran in one of the houses and no place was safe...all these monsters came at me and I was killing them. Then I saw a Drill Sergeant from basic and he said that my recruiter sent him to talk to me. We drove in that yellow car I saw and when we got to my house he started hitting me and I was running from him. I called the cops and he got in his class A uniform and the cop told me that he couldnt do anything, but to go to the army and talk to the supiriors. So, I went to my recruiter and they were trying to help me but nothing worked. Then I was in a car with my mom and my younger sister...except my sister wasnt the age she is now *17* she was a child again and I remember feeling sad cause I miss those times. My mom was drunk and she was driving along a rocky road telling me to look at the blue on the side of the road and telling me to look at the ice. I was scared cause I thought we were going to die. Then my mom took us to a sunny field and had us climb down this cave thing saying that my father took her there...she cried and we started climbing back up and I was scared for them afraid they would fall. and once we got back to the sunny field I was relieved.. what could this dream mean?

Can you interpret my dream? Dream : I was in my audi and all the cars had guns on them and were shooting at each other. I was on my way to see my army recruiter. I saw this one car, it was yellow and really close to the ground that wasnt taking any damage at all. I stopped at these houses and they were telling me to fight back. So, I ran in one of the houses and no place was safe...all these monsters came at me and I was killing them. Then I saw a Drill Sergeant from basic and he said that my recruiter sent him to talk to me. We drove in that yellow car I saw and when we got to my house he started hitting me and I was running from him. I called the cops and he got in his class A uniform and the cop told me that he couldnt do anything, but to go to the army and talk to the supiriors. So, I went to my recruiter and they were trying to help me but nothing worked. Then I was in a car with my mom and my younger sister...except my sister wasnt the age she is now *17* she was a child again and I remember feeling sad cause I miss those times. My mom was drunk and she was driving along a rocky road telling me to look at the blue on the side of the road and telling me to look at the ice. I was scared cause I thought we were going to die. Then my mom took us to a sunny field and had us climb down this cave thing saying that my father took her there...she cried and we started climbing back up and I was scared for them afraid they would fall. and once we got back to the sunny field I was relieved.. what could this dream mean?

How do I simplify this mess---I have too many guns out at one time, in a fairly high crime neighborhood? My father left me SOME money, but not a lot. I had enough to get a house free and clear in a high crime neighborhood in Los Angeles (Echo Park). I spent a lot of money on security: 1) German Shepherd from pound, 2) Fence, new cinder block walls, locked gate with fist sized Master Lock and chain 3) Wrought Iron burglar bars and doors, 4) Alarm 5) Experimenting with cheap webcams outside and inside 6) Big Browning Gun Safe. My significant other is wonderful in every way EXCEPT really FEARFUL of guns. He was brought up in a home where no one hunted, was ever in the military, or the police, or owned guns. I was just the opposite. My father (who was old enough to be my grandfather, grew up in Norway during WWII. He saw guns everywhere. When he came to America, he was drafted into the Army and served in Korea. He liked to hunt. My much older brother was in the Marines and became a Los Angeles county Sheriff's Deputy. I have been a victim of violent crime. And I am tiny (five foot four, 110 pounds). Physical fighting is out of the question for me, so I rely on firearms for self defense, now. First of all, I keep a Markarov 9 x 18mm wrapped in a towel, under the driver's seat of my Honda Insight. I have it wrapped so cleverly, no police officer has ever found it. There are no carry permits in Los Angeles County. So I carry a Colt's .25 auto, because it is so small it can pass a Police "Stop and Frisk". At home, I am scared of leaving the house after darkness, and opening the Burglar Doors, so if I have to get something in my car, or put out the trash, or get something out in the shed, I stick a old Police Surplus (Danish) Walther PP 7.65mm in my waistband. I am a very small man, and that is the largest gun I can stick in my pants. I have a big fear of someone breaking into my house when I am asleep. I sleep like the dead. I vary between keeping a four inch barrel .38 Special under my pillow, or a 1911 type .38 Super under my pillow. .38 is about the largest handgun I can fire, due to my size and build. I keep an inherited Fox BSE double barrel 20 gauge in the closet, loaded with 20 pellets of #3 buck. I used to have a Sears (High Standard) 20 gauge pump, but a few months back a elote man (Mexican Corn Cart Man) was being jacked out in front of my property. I Waived the pump around to persuade them to leave, and LAPD confiscated the gun. Which normally means you never get it back. Chief Charlie Beck is the Local President of Handgun Control Inc. If the LAPD sees a civilian gun for any reason, it is taken, and then they give you the runaround for a few years to get it back, so they can wear you down and they keep it and throw it a few miles off shore in the Police Boat. So I have all these guns out, with a life partner who really hates guns. Is there any simple, and obvious solution to this problem. Every time my significant other sees a gun, he cusses and says I am paranoid. I have a very good job. I CANNOT move away from Los Angeles. Rents here are VERY HIGH, so I cannot move.

How Do I Stop Feeling This Way? Okay, so when I was 18, I got married to this boy (Sam) I'd known from school. We went to secondary school together, and we dated when we were younger. He cheated on me, and I was pretty hurt, but I didn't dump him. As a result, we broke up more than 8 times, and then I officially ended it. That was in year 7, and then in year 8 we became actual best friends. I could tell him anything and he could tell me anything. I was best friend's at the time with this girl (Megan) and we looked close, but really she was making me miserable and I even tried committing suicide 3 times. She was really nasty, and I couldn't stop myself. Sam knew a lot about it, but not the suicide bit. He knew I hated her, and he hated her to because she'd torment him because of his finger (because he trapped in a door and it got chopped off by the blade and then had to have it sown on again). She was really cruel to him, and he was one of the 'bad boys'. Then I left school and she made Sam hate me. But then when I was 18, and had a career as an actress and singer, I had to go sing at the army. When I was there, I saw Sam in the soldiers, and we reunited again. We then started dating, although it was hard because he was in the army. Anyway, then he got shot. I went to the hospital and he recovered and then he proposed. We got married, and we were really happy together. Then one day after I came back from a dinner with some producers, I walked in on Sam and Megan (who'd become my best friend again) having sex. I always knew deep down he would cheat, but I guess I was blinded by love. Before he cheated, I became really close to one of Sam's mates, Ben who was really nice to me when I told him about my relationship issues. Before you start thinking, we didn't have an affair. But right before the cheating, I went out with my best (boy) friend Jake and we got really drunk. Long story short, he got me pregnant, but I was never sure whether it was Jake's or Sam's. But I was drunk, and Jake's always had a thing for me, and obviously took advantage of my drunkness. Anyway, I legged it back down to the car, and went for a long drive. I went to go and see Ben, and we said that I would go back and see what he said, but that Ben would follow behind in case I needed a getaway. So I went back to the house (with Ben behind, although Ben stayed in the car) but I saw Sam & Megan in the window of my house and Megan was really flirting with him, and he wasn't crying, but laughing. He then looked out the window and saw me and my expression. I began driving out of the driveway, but then Sam jumped into the car with me. I told him to get out, or something bad would happen. He didn't get out, so I drove in silence down to this forest. We went through the forest, and we stopped right before this frozen lake. I then repeated that he get out of the car, but he refused. So I said Fine then and I drove the car into the lake. Right before the car went in, Sam jumped out. I knew then that he didn't love me, and I'm not sure if I was on a suicide mission or not, but I was in a car, in a lake, drowning. The police had followed us, as Megan had reported that I'd threatened Sam. So just as the car went in, the police arrived, and I was still underwater. I took off my rings and let them fall to the bottom. I then swam to a corner, where I saw Ben standing and we quickly ran away. The police then looked through the lake and the car the next day, but it was obvious I'd gotten away. I was still pregnant at the time, but after the divorce, through all the stress I had a miscarriage. I carried on dating, and then married Ben. I can't help feeling bad sometimes, as Sam does seem truly sorry, but I don't know how to stop having occasional feelings for him. There's just little things that remind me of him, and but Ben understands how I must feel. I'm over Sam, and happy with Ben, but I want to just stop being reminded of Sam and my terrible marriage.

OMG SO CONFUSED!! PLEASE HELP!!? OK so I've been dating my boyfriend for almost six months now my first real relationship. I love him but it sometimes feels like something is missing. I've heard that when you hold someones hand... you can just tell. And sometimes I feel it but others I don't. He has this friend, Michael, he's 19 and in the Army. he was on leave for christmas and my bf and I wanted to have a 3some and Michael agreed to it. Before Michael went to pick my bf up he stopped by my house cause I wanted to see him. I hadn't seen him since the first time he brought my bf to my house. we weren't going out then. so naturally i wanted to see him again. Well we sat there in his car and just talked. he's a hand holder so he took my hand. my heart sped up and i felt what was supposed to be there.he is very charming.and knows exactly what to say. and i could tell that he meant every single word. after we had gone to the hotel room and...yeah. we took my bf home first cause i wanted to see our friends he was staying with. after michael and i left i didnt want to go home so we just drove around and i cuddled up to him.I felt safe with him holding me. of course him being in the army he works out and has some nice muscles and the guys ive dated never really had muscle. so it felt good to feel his strong arm around me. i never let myself be that vulnerable. but there was something about him.we finally got to my apartment and sat in the parking lot. he pulled me to him and kissed me.and it just felt right. where as with my bf i have to kiss him deeply to feel it. but not with Michael the gentlest touch to my lips sent a surge through my body.we ended up having s e x. but it felt so much more than that.the next day around 10 am he came to see me. he waited patiently while i took a shower, i take long showers.and here's the most crazy part. He got along with my twin brother. which people find hard to do especially my bf. so i was scared he wouldnt get along with my little brother.but...he did.and i felt so happy being around him. i felt more like myself. he even bought all of us mcdonalds! and my brothers like him better than my bf. but like i said hes in the army and he left back to virginia and he going to be over seas soon. i dont wanna leave my bf. mainly cause i dont wanna hurt him. but theres just something between us that keeps me there. I'm so confused/please help me. i know its long and im sorry for that. also my bf knows what Michael and I did. but we already worked that out. hes fine since im still with him and Michael's gone. oh and they've been friends since well for a long time.also im 17 years and my bf is 20. i wasnt a one night stand i know for sure. we still talk and my bf and i had an open relationship. so it was more experimenting than cheating.

I stop talking to my dad its been a whole year!!!!!!! help? well the reason we stop talking was that i was having a hard time living with my step mother in the house she had treated me so bad to a point were my hair was falling off cause of stress, however my dad knew about it and he never did anything to stop it. she talk badly about my mom, and even had him get raid of his mom. so sometimes i wanted to kill myself if it was not for my fiance but the thing his he was serving overseas(ARMY) but over the phone he would give me counseling. but my dad never approved of me dating i was 20 going on 21 in 2 month at that time. so i could not take it anymore so i moved out of the house and got married then moved away. but before i moved away i would try calling my little siblings then one day he picked up and told me not to call his houe anymore and to saty away from him, so i did for a year. now my in laws are beggin me to make peace with him even my hubby, even when i told him that he asked me to stay away i know my dad he can can keep a grudge to his grave. he treating to hit my lil bro and sis if they talk to me. so we have to talk secretly sorry about all the mispelled word my computer is acting up.

How do I stop obsessing over someone else's life? I went to school with this girl and she graduated a yr before me. I was not very close friends with her but we were involved in the same sports so we talked once in awhile. I didn't pay much attention to her until i found out she was pregnant to her hs sweetheart in my first yr of college. Everyone including me was curious to see her baby b/c both parents are attractive. At first I felt bad for her then I found out they got married. Then I felt bad again b/c her hubby toured in Iraq for a yr. He came back and the last 4 yrs I've been obsessing. I look the pic of her family constantly wishing I had a fam. She turned an unplanned pregnancy into a good thing. Now they're married, have a House i think b/c he's in the army), beautiful, beautiful children. She has everything I want. Meanwhile, I've been in college for 4 yrs, I'm still not sure what Im gonna do, I commuted so I didn't have the college experience, I work so I have no time for fun, and Im home w/ parents which suck but I can't move b/c no $. I stopped obsessing when I had a new boyfriend, i don't have one anymore so now its more obsessing. The only time I realize that she may not have everything is when her hubby goes to Iraq she ALWAYS moves back w/ her parents. I don't think she has a deceit job b/c both of them never went to college. So how do I stop obsessing over her life? Should I limit looking at her pic once a month, read more what??? Is this normal? Help b/c this is embarrasing.

is my army boy cheating? My boy and I have been "together" not dating even though everyone just says we are for 5 months 3 have been at basic and now some other training and school in va. But we have been friends for years. When he first left in June I was very upset and he is a known player my dad and sisters warn me about him constantly ( I'm 19 and not living at home so it just annoying phone calls btw he is 21) but when he first left he called me almost 1 every other week ... That's a lot for basic and wrote me tons of letters it was great. He graduated from basic and came home for one day ... We chilled but it wasn't the same and I had my period ... Now all my friends are showing me things on his facebook from a girl he had a thing with saying I love you and miss you and I'm not sure all my friends are telling me he is cheating and I should end it with him and stop waiting for him but I really like him and he promised he was going to be good before he left.... But he only texts me a little every night and he is always going to bed and tired ... That's understandable he is in the army but to not make 5 mins to call your girl? I don't know any opinions or thoughts? I'm very confused we planned on moving in together in dec... i dont know we talked about things in the future although ... telling other another girl(the same one as on his facebook) that you were crying when you left her house... right before spending the night before leaving for basic with me i don know i never even thought he would cheat but it seems like he might be thanks for any help of advice! we are together.... as in a couple. and ya he WAS a known player .... and the only reason my dad warned me was because my sister dated is half brother and he recently broke it off they were on horrible terms and now she is bad mouthing the whole family ... he is calling tonight should i talk to him about it or let it go until he comes home next weekend

hes leaving for the army.. PLZ help. im heartbroken.? So we met for the very first time on June 19th. I am 17 and he is 18. It truly was like love at first sight. We met at a hotel he was living in. His roommate was talking to my best friend. That's how we met. We saw each other and we instantly connected. Before I left he walked me to my car and kissed me before getting my number and started calling me several times a day. We hung out again a few days later and I stayed the night with him at the hotel. We had the most magical night you can imagine. We did nothing sexual, only kissed. Call me crazy, but I fell in love. We connected so much when he was kissing me that I teared up every time he stopped to look at me. There was just so much passion, like we knew each other in a past life. We were so connected. Like our souls had finally bonded after searching for each other after all our lives. I felt true happiness. I felt love. I stayed the night 2 more times and finally he revealed to me that he is leaving for the Army on August 11th. He said he didn't tell me bc even though he had just met me he didn't want to lose me. By the 27th he officially asked me to be his girlfriend. After that I had him meet my parents. He loves loves loves my family. I like his family too. Everything was so perfect. We felt like we had found our soulmates. The day before yesterday he stayed the night. He slept on the couch and I was in my room. We decided to not have sex until he leaves. And neither of us has ever waited that long. But we both are happy to and we want it to be special. Anyway, we hung out all day the next day. We didn't have anywhere to go since neither of us had money and we wanted to be alone and not at my house, so we went to an outdoor mall and spent the rest of the day there. He had been in a bad, depressed mood the last few days, and I wanted to help him but he kept telling me he was fine. I knew he wasn't. Finally we sat down after having tons of fun seeing who can keep sour candy in their mouth longer. At first he just said he was bored, and felt stranded. He explained it wasn't bc of me, that he just feels like this in general. He said he just doesn't know what he wants (in general). It was all really painful seeing him like this. He started talking about how overwhelmed he is. He said there is so much happening and so much change coming in his life that he doesn't know what to make of it. That he wants to feel free. He said I wasn't smothering him or tying him down or anything, but he said having the label of boyfriend and girlfriend is making him feel overwhelmed. I felt so sorry for him, I could just see his pain. He said he wants to break up, but he doesn't want a single thing to change. Just the label. I knew he meant that and everything would be okay but it still hurt regardless . It still hurts. He also said he still sees me and him being together for the rest of our lives and he still means all the things he's ever said to me. He wants me to see him off when he leaves and he wants me to be at his graduation and write him letters every day. He also said he thinks I'm the one but he wants to put that to the test by not "being with me". I can understand I guess that he is going through a lot right now. Really all I want is for him to have peace in his mind. He said he doesn't want to lose me or see me with other guys. And he said he knows I will always be here to support him. And I will. Oh he also said he doesn't want me to stop calling him 3 times in a row until he answers, and he wants me to not change a thing. When he said its not you its me, he really meant it. I just am so so hurt. Bc he only has a month until he leaves and I feel like every second we are wasting time. Its awful. I miss him so much already that idk how I will cope with him being gone. I just wish I could have met him sooner. But it only makes sense that our notebook/dear john perfect love story will turn into a tragedy. Just like in those movies. I am so lost, so hurt, so confused. So concerned about him. What should I do? Do you think we can make it through this? Advice would be great! My goal is to be officially back together before he leaves. But if its better for him then I will go through the hurt. THANKS SO MUCH I know this is long.

bestfriend problems and I'm leavin for the army? kinda long but please I need your help bad! So I am not tryin to be dramatic, in fact I have not had drama in my life almost my entire HS life but this is really bugging me. My "best friend" and I have been best friends for years, we have gone through break ups and make ups with guys, we have gone through three deaths of good friends, we have gone through family problems and personal problems. EVERY weekend we were at eachothers house or doing something together but she is really pissing me off lately. When my now fiance and I got together she made fun of him for EVERYTHING and ANYTHING, I asked and told her numerous times to cut it out he meant alot to me, but she never did, she was also the reason behind alot of fights me and my fiance' had too. Well she started dating this guy who is on probabtion for beatin his ex girlfriend and many of my friends were there to witness him doing it (and of course stepped in) and I tried warning her several times he's not a good guy but she insisted everyone was lying so I just respected her enough to get along with him when need be until the night he got mad and put me in a choke hold . . . with her RIGHT there and she STILLS denies he's abusive. Everytime he would break up with her (they broke up 4 times in less than 3 months) she wanted to hang out with me and my fiance' but when he took her back she treated us like crap. Well at our HS graduation she asked to see my engagment ring, when I showed her she ragged on it non stop in front of everyone (I got to pick it out and I LOVE IT ) and started raggin on my fiance', needless to say it took all I had not to beat the livin you know what outta her. Well 2 days after graduation my fiance' who is also in the army was shipped out and she text askin if I was okay, I said "not really but I will be I just miss him alot already" and she responded with "well at least you'll get to see him again my BF left me and I won't get to see him again so stop complaining" I snapped I called her a few choice words and told her to go you know where. I myself am in the army too and I'm being now shipped out in 8 days, we have been friends for years but I can't stand who she is now, what should I do? Leave with us being P.O'd at one another or try and work it out? I also have alot of pride so it will take ALOT for me to try and work this out. what would you do? also my fiance' says I'm to nice to her already and he wants to kill her ex for puttin me in that choke hold (he was off doing something with the army when it happened) so if I do make up with her I think she owes he and I an apology, he was nothin but nice to her till she took it to far one day and talked about his family

How to stop from snapping (Very ANGRY) HELP ME? First Im getting bad grades in math and just math because of a teacher that seems to want to hold me back because he thinks im not ready for the SATs (WHAT?) It's ******* with my damn life at home cause now my mother is acting like math is the only thing in the ******* world and every time im doing homework she says how's that math coming......you doing that math work, ad i will say no im doing other school homework and she seems to think im yelling or being disrespectful when i say it and she starts to yell and never stop until im stuck at the damn computer till 10:00 finishing homework cause all i could focus on was her yelling and then she goes to sleep them wonder why im up so late. Second im out of the world tired of school because im not getting enough sleep and all of a sudden this school year i start to sweat like its july and im in a ******* pool then i start to smell alittle and i have girls all on me but it won't work out right if one of them say i stink and then i will have no girls and there be talking because everyone knows that i always come too school clean. IDK how this non-stop sweating became and it makes me even madder. Third because off all this bull-crap school and stress i want to be a scientist but that's not going to happen now or then it was a FBI or CIA agent but my teacher said you have two be really smart for that well for the CIA or i wanted to be a Author because my teacher said my story's are really good and she mail one of my stories to her friends but my mother keeps on saying because of my grades im not going to be nothing So you know what...... if these things keeps happening im going the ARMY or NAVY or AIR FORCE because im am about to ******* snap and i can't take any of it anymore. You know im a nice guy and your friends try to joke on you and you joke back but im really not happy at all. The stress and all the work and im only 15 and my birthday is in 1 more month and my mother is saying take more responsibility your 16 and your grown now i will put you out my house but wait no im 15 WTH it's all too ******* much and if this all happens next year or still happening by the end of this year I swear i will snap because i have been holding back for too long and the little anger bar is spilling over and ever day now im starting to feel like just the slightess thing will make me kill someone with me bear hands. How do i stop it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP MEEEEEEEEE!!!!

mexican army on red dead redemption game? ok so heres the situation, i was doing one of those stranger missions in mexico, the one where you have to get the opium for the workers, and as i was helping the mexican army by burning the houses down, one of the people got killed and now the mexican army is against me. is there any way to get them to stop trying to kill me everywhere i go? i don't think i can re-load the mission since i already saved. thanks for lookin first of all i don't have the us marshal suit, next i didn't have any bounty. i had saved yesterday and when i started playing abour an hour ago it was gone, the army wasn't shooting me anymore so i guess its like a timed thing or something

please help with me with history! 1: Taking place in Virginia on July 21, 1861, this was the first major land battle of the Civil War between the two armies. Through the efforts of Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson, the Confederates pushed the Union into retreat back to Washington and prevented them from invading south into Richmond. After the loss, Union Brigade General Irvin McDowell was relieved of his position and command of the Union army was handed over to Major General George B. McClellan. Name this battle. Second Bull Run/Manassas Gettysburg First Bull Run/Manassas Shiloh 2: On April 12, 1861, this battle in South Carolina marked the beginning of the Civil War. Located in Charleston Harbor, it was here that the Confederates opened fire and the Union army could not reply effectively. On April 13, the Union surrendered the site and evacuated. Name this battle. Pea Ridge Antietam Fort Sumter Harpers Ferry 3: After a one and a half month long siege, one of the more brilliant military campaigns of the war culminated at this battle in Mississippi on July 4, 1863. The armies of Union General Ulysses S. Grant converged on the city and trapped Confederate Lieutenant General John Pemberton causing him to surrender. The effect of this Union victory effectively split the Confederacy in two. Name this battle. Port Hudson Wilson's Wharf Gettysburg Vicksburg 4: From May 1 through 4, 1863, this battle in Virginia raged between the armies of Union General Joseph Hooker and Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson. Amidst the fighting in the evening of May 2, General Jackson was mortally wounded by his own men. The eventual Confederate victory led to the fateful Battle of Gettysburg. Name this battle. Chancellorsville Chattanooga Chickamauga Cedar Creek 5: The final numbers of this battle that took place in Maryland on September 17, 1862, between the armies of Union General George B. McClellan and Confederate General Robert E. Lee include an estimated 23,100 casualties total making it the single bloodiest day in United States history. The events of this battle led Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Name this battle. Gettysburg Antietam/Sharpsburg Shiloh Chancellorsville 6: New Major General Ambrose E. Burnside led his army toward Richmond in hopes of capturing the city. Confederate General Robert E. Lee sent Lieutenant General James Longstreet to stop the Union army. Burnside's slow actions in directing the army bought time for Lee and Thomas Jackson to take up excellent defensive positions around this battle site located in Virginia. On December 13, 1862, the Union suffered greatly again and experienced more casualties than the Confederates. Name this battle. Richmond Belmont Fredericksburg Vicksburg 7: On July 3 in the western area, the Mississippi River navy and the army under Grant worked together to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi, causing which fortress to surrender? Fort Sumter Vicksburg Pensecola Greenbow 8: True or False: the Confederate states did not adhere to the Emancipation Proclamation upon its official release? True False ----- ----- 9: The Emancipation Proclamation raised Union esteem and gave African Americans from the North and South reason to support the Union, which 186,000 of them did by doing what? protesting in Confederate states heading West returning to Africa enlisting in the Union army 10: In 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act, which did what? granted any man who wished to start a new farm the land from public domain provided homes to all Union residents distributed free rations to poor farmers allowed private housing contractors to build on public domain

How to stop from snapping (Very ANGRY) HELP ME PLZ? First Im getting bad grades in math and just math because of a teacher that seems to want to hold me back because he thinks im not ready for the SATs (WHAT?) It's ******* with my damn life at home cause now my mother is acting like math is the only thing in the ******* world and every time im doing homework she says how's that math coming......you doing that math work, ad i will say no im doing other school homework and she seems to think im yelling or being disrespectful when i say it and she starts to yell and never stop until im stuck at the damn computer till 10:00 finishing homework cause all i could focus on was her yelling and then she goes to sleep them wonder why im up so late. Second im out of the world tired of school because im not getting enough sleep and all of a sudden this school year i start to sweat like its july and im in a ******* pool then i start to smell alittle and i have girls all on me but it won't work out right if one of them say i stink and then i will have no girls and there be talking because everyone knows that i always come too school clean. IDK how this non-stop sweating became and it makes me even madder. Third because off all this bull-crap school and stress i want to be a scientist but that's not going to happen now or then it was a FBI or CIA agent but my teacher said you have two be really smart for that well for the CIA or i wanted to be a Author because my teacher said my story's are really good and she mail one of my stories to her friends but my mother keeps on saying because of my grades im not going to be nothing So you know what...... if these things keeps happening im going the ARMY or NAVY or AIR FORCE because im am about to ******* snap and i can't take any of it anymore. You know im a nice guy and your friends try to joke on you and you joke back but im really not happy at all. The stress and all the work and im only 15 and my birthday is in 1 more month and my mother is saying take more responsibility your 16 and your grown now i will put you out my house but wait no im 15 WTH it's all too ******* much and if this all happens next year or still happening by the end of this year I swear i will snap because i have been holding back for too long and the little anger bar is spilling over and ever day now im starting to feel like just the slightess thing will make me kill someone with me bear hands. How do i stop it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP MEEEEEEEEE!!!!

I cant stop thinking about my ex.? okay to start out here my history with my ex: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Atf6gIs0W5RgSeMQYeNoVFbty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090829094422AAboj65 on tuesday we met up for the first time in about a year. I sent her a letter about 2 months ago and we've been sending each other letters back and forth and we decided to met on tuesday. it great I bought my dog and we walked around the woods and river just talking catching up with other. we held each others hands towards the ends. when we got back to parking lot. she said good bye and were gonna have lunch on thursday we hugged each other and went our separate ways. this is where it gets weird last night [wednesday] I had a dream I was driving down the street and I saw her and this guy on a corner and he was yelling at her then hit her. then I stopped the car got out confronted him and he said he would get twenty guys to run in my house and beat me up then I said I have enough bullets and to come any time then he pulled out a knife and I pulled out mine and I disarmed him knocked him down on his knees went behind him and put my knife to his neck. then my ex starts yelling at me to stop and then I woke up from my dream. now earlier to night my friend and uncle were talking about fixing up the camaro in his back yard because the county sent him a letter about it. that got me thinking about last summer then I started thinking about how if I got back with my ex would my heart be able to handle it when I got home I just sat in my garage listing to the local country station then I felt the compelling urge to smoke [I quit a week ago] then this song about a girl whose husband died and how she misses him and then I thought if I join the Army will she still stay with me. I didn't sign up yet I just ook my MOS test but I defiantly want to sign my loyalty papers before I turn 19 in november. the next thing I know I smoked about 5 cigarettes and writing my ex's name all over a piece of paper. what do you think? I'm I heart broken or what. I just know know I never felt the way I do with this girl with any one else I dated. we dated for 15 months and were going to get married after we graduated. no it looks like we might get back together after a year apart. she didn't date any body for the year and I dated a girl as soon as she dumped me which was a big mistake [see link above] and was seeing an older lady about a moth ago. so Do you think I'm heart broken, do you think I could handle another break up with her?

Are South Africans too critical about South Africa or not critical enough? Innocentia posted an interesting question about Guy Lundy´s speach: http://blog.guylundy.com/i-pledge-allegiance-speech/2007/02/16/ These are my comments about his speach: Of course one has to be positive and optimistic in life, but there are also dangers in taking his "too simplistic" view of things. Basically what he is promoting is that people should stop complaining and then things will get better. I think this is what most people did for the 1st 10 years living in a new South Africa. Has he just returned to S.A. maybe we should give him a while to settle in and then chat again after a year or so. I diagree with a few things that he said: (I have responded to some of his quotes.) ""Yes, we have problems, but so does everybody else.""- Very, very few countries have the crime and political problems on a scale that South Africa has. ""Sure, the Rand is down the toilet, but if you look closely enough you’ll see that just about every other emerging market country has suffered from the same woes – and that includes Australia and New Zealand, which everyone seems in such a rush to get to."" But Australia and New Zealand´s currency is not down the toilet (and never was) and they have one of the highest standards of living in the world (even when they were emerging). Sorry to say but that is an uneducated comparison. "" And aren’t we lucky that we aren’t living in Argentina with their currency crisis?"" Their currency crisis was brought on by bad politics! Do I need to underline the relationship between bad politics in S.A and our unstable Rand? And how noble a gesture is a comparison with another countries misery, is that supposed to make us feel better?! (Anyway, Argentina have a lower crime rate!) "" Sure, our neighbour, Zimbabwe, is run by a mad, despotic fool, but man am I glad that I don’t live in Pakistan right now. "" No comment. ""We have AIDs, and we also have an army of people trying to find a cure for it – possibly more vigorously than anywhere else since we have the most to lose from it."" Unfortunately we have a President and Health minister who don´t believe in the connection between HIV and AIDS. And an ex-Deputy president who suggests taking a shower after sex. And I tire of mentioning the beetroot and garlic recipes.... ""We do have corruption, and the Americans have George W. Bush, whether they like it or not."" No comment. ""We’ve got all sorts of problems, yes, but must we be so hard on ourselves?"" Are we being hard on ourselves or rather being hard on bad government, crime etc. ""In many ways we are far better off in South Africa as a whole than we have been at any time in our history. Our people are getting educated and housed at a world-beating rate, we have amongst the world’s cheapest electricity, our inflation is the lowest it’s been in my lifetime, we have an economic growth rate, and there is development everywhere you look. We have so much going for us; we have so many good people, such an interesting mix of cultures; we have so much beautiful countryside and natural resources that we can draw from – we really have such a bright future ahead of us."" I think about the only thing still cheap (world comparatively) is electricity. Telecommunications is one of the most expensive in the world (if not the most expensive), inflation is way out of control in comparison with earnings, the cost of trying to keep safe costs an arm and a leg (pun intended), a massive housing crisis where the real issue is not being addressed - a non sustainable birth rate, a good economic growth rate but with a 27 Billion Rand municipal budget deficit. ""Let us concentrate on the positive things that surround us every day, the sunshine, the people, the beauty, the progress. Constantly criticising our country can only do harm – for you personally, your personal feeling of happiness and well-being, and for the country that you know from the bottom of your heart that you love, otherwise you wouldn’t be here."" People have done this for many years but they have seen how neglected things have become by not complaining. It is well known that the White South Africans have a culture of not complaining enough but the Black South Africans are excellent at organising, standing together and complaining. We need to all learn from each other, learn the truth, and stand together, all of us and complain. It is NOT unpatriotic to complain but instead it is our democratic right and may be the last means we have left to change what could be another African basket case! Good answer Moloi. You got me googling bond rand. I will however suggest that politically South Africa is basically a one-Party state and in order for any democracy to truly function it requires multi parties with equal representation. But maybe that´s a whole other Yahoo question and answer?! Thanks Innocentia, I´m not sure how it feels to have a baby doing cartwheels in the stomach I can only assume it might feel similar to how I feel the morning after one to many mojitos or sangrias! P.S. The hat ( Sombrero) is a very essential part of my attire here in Spain, it gets dannng hot here in Summer - ( I can see it being very useful around a braai in South Africa - maybe a good marketing idea there?)

I am a girlfriend of a U.S. Army Soldier. Can I go live with him if we got married, and go to school? Im 17 and he is 18. We have been together for 2 years and he has been in the Army for a little over 6 months. He arrived at his duty station today and he is going to be getting his own house with his battle buddy, Kelsey. If we get married in December( No need to mention parental consent, I've got it), can I go live with him and his friend, and go to school? I'd really appreciate it if no one says anything about the chances of our relationship lasting. Or anything along those lines. There is no way anyone can change my mind in what I want to do. If I am making a mistake then so be it, but please don't try and stop me from finding out. Oh and Jellybelly... You apperently dont know much. In CT its legal for 16 year olds to get married as long as I have parental consent.

My boyfriend said he is confused about us and doesnt know or think i am the one? My boyfriend and I have been dating for 5 months im 22 and he is 29. hes been divorced because his ex wife cheated on him. we have been great up until two weeks ago. he wanted to go out so he did and we got in an argument about it because he did stupid things the three nights he went off i think to purposely make me mad. we took a two day break and got back together for thanksgving. I had the best thanksgiving at my parents house that i have ever had. we also had two other nights of thanksgiving one with his mom and siblings another at his fathers. monday night we were sitting around drinking and i could sense that something wasnt right. he asked why i was being so standoffish and i couldnt explain why but i knew something was going on. even though he wasnt acting differently with me. I went through his phone and saw messages implementing he was going to break up with me again, so i called him out. he said that he doesnt think that i am the one, i stayed over again that night and in the morning began packing a majority of my belongings. when he woke up he said that hes confused and doesnt know how he feels, we hugged and i cried and he nearly cried and i didnt want to let go of him and i know he wanted to stay there in my arms. he has also said he doesnt think he has feelings because he has blocked them out. he is in the army and has ptsd so he is on anti depressants and also had the bad past with women. He said that we will get together in four days and talk about everything over lunch. I know he loves me and hes trying to decided if this is over or if we just need to take a step back. I dont understand any of this, im so confused. I know we moved in to fast. we started dating then a week later went on vacation together then when we came back i moved in and we spent every night together for five months... What should i do now? i text him and told him this is in gods hands now and i will try my hardest not to bother him, but i fear if i stop talking to him he will let us go without any thought, because that would be the easier way out. help me!!

Is there a poverty industry? Although the tax payer gets the bill - shelters make money and so do non profit housing and it employs a lot of addiction counsellors and social workers and corectional officers. The welfare recipient is a winning solution to the government - The tax payer picks up the bill and the sub class that will never get out of the cycle Employs more than is reasonable to believe. Thin about the fact that the Salvation Army who houses a lot of hiomeless is a billion dollar company that begs on the street with a little bell at christmas time. Try for a second to get over that chunk out of your paycheck and look where it actually goes and who gets it and so forth How do we stop the poverty industry? It is linked to the drug industry and the sex trade etc. Topple one and the whole thing will come down

How do I stop my chronic anxiety from ruining my life any further? Hello, I've been living with constant anxiety for like six years. Im 18 years old now and going to turn 19 in May. My anxiety has kept me from enjoying social things in life like hanging out with friends, talking to people, taking the bus, going to the docters or dentists becomes a nightmare for me. Hell, it even kept me from getting a girlfriend. I really need help and I tried ordering the program from the Midwest Center for anxiety and deppresion but I needed a credit card number ready for them. Well I cant do that because my parents stopped all the credit cards since my retard of a dad spent alot unwisely using credit card. Now we had trouble paying the bills. Then we lost our house to forclosure and had to live in a smaller more unpleasent house. I sometimes feel that it is my fault because my anxiety kept me from getting a job so now im broke as hell and I tried looking up cognitive therapy but they pay 100 dollers an hour so Im feeling really worried right now. I dont ant to use meds becuase I want to join the army and I heard that you have to be off meds for at least one year. I dont want to wait a year just to join the army, my dream is to serve in the army and I want to do it right after I finish highschool. I only have 3 months untill I graduate so I feel like time is running out, PLEASE HELP.

Army Wife advice? Explanation extended? Ok, I posted this two hours ago, but realized I was way to vague. Situation: My husband is deployed. I am friends with another unit wife, who's husband is also gone. They have a single soldier who rents a room from him and is also in the same unit. He recently started making comments towards me, that I did not receive kindly. I tried to ignore him, to avoid starting trouble. When he kept doing it, I told him that my husband really wouldn't appreciate it the way he was speaking to me, and that I didn't either. The next night, I went over there to see my friend. He came over and slapped my butt. I turned around and slapped him. I went to find my friend to tell her what happened, and he came around me and seriously groped me in the kitchen. I lost my head, and screamed at him, got upset and left. I thought about what to do here for a while. I finally concluded that telling my husband while he was gone was the best decision, because I know him, and I know that if he was here when I told him, there was nothing that I could do to stop him from making his way over to his house and....well, you know. So I figured he could be angry about it for a little bit, his co workers would talk him into a calm state, and he would have it all pulled together by the time he got home. I was right, he was angry, but he relaxed pretty quickly, and spoke to one of his higher ups. I guess my question is, what will happen to this single solider? I have proof, he sent me a message apologizing for "grabbing my butt" saying "he didnt know why he did it...well, yes he did, but he was sorry" and I've got three days worth of text messages of him begging me to come over, and me saying no, over and over again. So what will happen? Will he get a talking to? Or wil they actually remove him? p.s this literally happened yesterday. I spoke to my husband this morning. He told me to make sure I did NOT delete any of the proof, and that I had "found a bad apple" in the unit who didn't deserve to be there. And there's no way I'd go around him at this point. My friend now comes here. No, I do not dress provocatively nor do I carry myself in any sort of fashion that would ask for attention. I love and respect my husband.

What does my dreams mean? I had a rather strange dream. Background first - I am soldier in the British Army 1st Paratroop Regiment, I have been going out with my girlfriend for a year and we are taking our relationship to the next step, moving in and we are having our first child. I got off the phone from her at night and I went to bed because I was tired I had just came back from a patrol. I had a dream about I got home and she stays near the barracks which I get transported to when I return. The Dream I get off the plane home and I meet up with some of my friends, we go and have a catch up and a few drinks at the bar, we're all having a good laugh and then I remember I didn't go visit my girlfriend. I tell them I will meet up with them later, I need to go home and get changed because I am still in my Desert DPM. I get a taxi home but on the way I decied to stop in past her house, I get there I hear music going. I wandered what was going on because she would of told me if she was having a party. I get ot the door and one of her friends awnsers and looks at me confused on who I am. I ask if she is there and they basically tell me to bugger off. I knock again and then barge my way through, she looks at me as if she doesnt reconginze me then she goes and makes out with another guy, I stormed off I then woke up and I was sweating, what does this mean, could anyone help? 1. I am not going to pray to anyone, I do not belieave in anything. The British Army is a good laugh, it's no different to the American army, I met quite alot in the Helemand Province some are a good laugh others are just stupid. I don't know if it is loosing her on my line of duty or not, I have had many close encounters but nothing's actually ever made me dream like this. I just dont know what to do, I want to speak to her about it but she'd probably freak out me or something. Just because I fight in wars doesnt mean I need to belieave in god, I am an atheist, I dont see the point getting down and praying because when it comes to the point where I have got the compound under attack, god's not going to come down and fight this war for me, it's up to me and my men to push forward and take control of the situation. We are the ones who have to fight this war, not god. I only want to know what my dream means.

Army Reserves to Active, married with children, husband's permission? I am married with two children, enlisting in the Army Reserves with a dependent waiver. If/when I decide to go Active, will there be extra criteria I must meet to do so, as far as the family situation goes? Will I have to fill out a new family care plan or anything? Or here's the real question: will I have to involve my husband if/when I decide to go Active? Or can I switch to Active Duty without telling him ahead of time? Do I need his permission/cooperation? I ask because I might go Active and divorce him (I know this sounds cold, but believe me when I say I have very few options here). If I divorce him before going Active, he'll do everything in his power to keep me from going Active, just to keep me near him, plus the Army would (I think) want me to give up complete custody of our children to him. If I divorce him and go Active I will allow him to keep the children living with him, since he makes a good living, owns our house, etc. If I divorce my husband without Active Duty, I'll have custody of the children, whom I love, but he'll use them as an excuse to harass me constantly. Which means nothing will be different than it is now, excapt that I'll be on welfare. I truly feel that going Active might be the only way for me to get away from him (geographically and financially) without him being able to stop me. I'm not joining the Army for this purpose (I'm joining Reserves right now regardless, for my own reasons), but recent developments, along with old ones, have me desperate to make a break when possible. My children are no longer small, and will do well living primarily with their father. I'm prepared for the comments about what a cold calculating wench I am, but am hoping that a few of you can help me in between. I just need to know whether or not I can switch form Reserves to Active without telling my husband until the deal is done, so that he can't stop me.

after my discharge from the army ,2 years honerable,may 76? i partyed it up for many years and didnt stop for many years,got hepatitis c from self iv cocain needles,thought the b-52s a great band,had lots of bs jobs,then got good at fiberglass boat repair,then got into bobsledding at lake placid ny,that was cool.then bought a vhs tape on glass bead making made 40 grand one year got good at beads,still doing them lots of fun bought a house in se. ohio sit around and watch x-files and waiting for a check from the government 910.00 a month,pray to God now and then wrote a short letter to new governer(my spelling still stinks)love my dad and my gal and our pets,but sick from hep c and ill with diabetes type 2 life is fun even sick,have some chicken ill cook .now WHATS YOUR STORY in a few words?

What would you do in a situation like this one? My male best friend and I, both were going thru some drastic life changes and both needed some help. I'm a pretty independent person and i've had to fight for everything i got, however my last relationship left me struggling with my job and bills ect. My best friend however just ended his marriage, lost his house,ended his career in the army and was living with family workin pt @ a grocery store. He needed a jump start to establishing himself again, where i needed someone to drag me outta the dirt before i lost everything i worked so hard for. We both agreed to live in my house where i would provide everything he needed (which would be easier and quicker then him trying to do it) and he would in turn split the rent and buy food and try to get back on his feet. Some where down the road he ended up falling for me knowing that i only wanted to be friends. To make a long story short, he is proving himself to be very unstable emotionally. He's very short tempered, hotheaded, and very angry and takes it out on my house (which i rent but am responsible for) busting up my toilet, he wouldnt let me leave the house until i heard him out, kinda man handled me a lil but he didnt punch me or anything extreme, however i still called the cops and had him removed from my house. In the mean while he would still hang around the house, call me all the time, ect. He told people that i was his confidence, and that he felt he could connect with me, or felt comfortable talking to me ,ect. I feel bad b/c i want to help him, he's a good friend of mine, but i cant seem to get thru to him without him getting upset. I feel that his attitude is bitter towards me b/c he feels that he has tried very hard to prove himself to me during his stay here and i still dont wanna be with him. Now we talked about this already on several occasions, and he agrees with everything that i say, but its as if his actions are speakin louder, and he'll have hissy fits when he doesnt get his way or if we dont see eye to eye. Now i have a male cat who will be a year in feb. Now he says he likes the cat but yet feels the cat has more authority over him in the house and enjoys any chance he gets to squirt him or whatever b/c he thinks that when he goes to discipline him, i get upset and he feels im choosing the cat over him. My problem is that i care for him and want to help him but not under these circumstances. I dont know how to get him to reason with me or what i can do to make this situation better for the both of us. I hope this doesnt sound like im bashing him, im just at my witts end, altho its so nice to have a helping hand. He's a good hearted person and he means well, but i know he's feeling insecure and im sick of hearing him sing "heartless" by kanye west in the bathroom (i know its dedicated to me altho he says its not) and im definitely sick of the arguing about my love for my cat, or how he would say "being up my cats a$$ all the time".. is it just me?.. what can i do to ensure that we can both be happy? I just wish he could respect my wishes and stop feeling betrayed by me b/c of my decision. I told him you dont wanna be with someone u have to force to love and he agrees but still walks and talks with a chip on his shoulder.. any advice will be appreciated. We both need options. thanx in advance.

How can i stop ARMY recruiter harassment? I stop by the local army Recruiting office by my house about 3 weeks ago. the next week they called me and wanted to talk to me about joining. I told them that i was in college and that i had more than i year left. i told them that i would call them when i was ready. Well this all seemed fine until last wednesday, when i got another call. My recruiters boss called me and wanted to know what was holding me back from joining. I told him have school and i can't join for awhile anyways so that i would call him when i was ready. He told me that he'll let me do what i wanted to do and to call him when I is ready. then saturday they send 2 recruiters to my house, i wasn't at my house at the time but my father told me about it. Since then they just keep calling my cell phone and my house phone. this is getting out of hand and is starting to become harassment. i have already told them that i will call them and they agreed what else can i do to stop this.

Housing for Army Officers? I’ve been doing a lot of research through the army’s housing website. (on-stop.army.mil). I plan on being an officer (I want to be a Physician Assistant). They have a lot of enlisted housing, but very many officer’s quarters and the once I did find go up to an O-5 (LTC). I plan on making a career out of the army and want to stay in 25-30years or longer God willing. My question is once I become an O-6 will I not be able to live on base and I’ve notice all the housing offered to officers are family. Do they offer single quarters or apartment for people who aren’t marry or their family didn’t come with them? Any other websites would be great so I can get an idea of military housing and life. Thank you

How do I stop the army from stopping at my house? BUT, before that they keep calling me and texting me. The staff sargent asked me to join and he wanted to see me. I was making up an excuse that I didn't have a ride. So, the staff sargent sent a ride to pick me up. The next day, I got home from HS and there were 2 military Hummers and guys with digital uniforms. They wanted to talk to me about joining. They wanted me to get in their hummer and drive to the nearest recruit station just outside of town. Yes, I live near an army base. I told them that I already made up my mind. I want to go to college. How did the army get my information? WHo's selling them my information? In June, I went to get my permit license. Is this where the army got my information? I don't remember signing up for selective service. I'm only 17.

How long is the current wait for housing on Vilseck/Grafenwoehr? E6 w/ 3 kids. So, 4 bedroom, right? We are set to move to Vilseck (3rd Squadron, 2 SCR) in March. I am trying to get an idea on how long the wait is for housing. Army One Stop does not have current info. I know that there are quite a few soldiers coming when we are, so I am hoping the wait is not too long. We have a baby due only 2 weeks before our report date, so I am worried that the passports will delay me, and then they won't let me come out until my husband finds housing. I know they are deploying soon, so I hope we are not apart for months waiting on housing.

these big army choppers wont stop passing right on top of my house!!!!? ok so for the last couple of weeks or so about 5 to 6 army or big ary choppers have been passing by every single day and its starting to get annopying and im also curious if anyone knows why they are here and what they are doing?

A question for all extremists: can you please stop blowing stuff up? If you do, then foreign armies would leave your country, and people would stop dropping bombs on your houses. Thank you. Now stop acting stupid.

Is there a standing army near the white house? Or what's keeping the terrorists from attacking it? In the pictures I've seen there are always a handful of secret service standing around, but it doesn't look like that many people to stop a mob of terrorists....

Why do people insult the Israeli army for killing innocents, when the millitants hide behind them? Hamas leaders brag about killing Israeli civilians, then decide to hide, rather than fight when the Israelis come. If they really want civilians to be safe, maybe they should stop hiding in their houses, neighborhoods, and cars. I understand hiding against a superior army, but you can't blame the Israelis for killing your woman and children when you hide behind them. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians

How do I stop neighbours kids coming into our house? My wife is at home during the day and when she comes back from the school our neighbours send in their little 3 year old to our hours. The neighbours next door are an army corporal and school teacher. The mother works all day and the father stays at home. The other day let his 3 year old daughter into our house when our baby was sick. This was so he could do his ironing! Is this a bit thoughtless? What should we do?

Does this make you want to stop giving to Salvation Army bell ringers? A man, who for many years, has been an officer for the Salvation Army is facing possibility of being booted for planning to marry a woman who is not a part the group. They seem to have a rule stating that officers may only marry within their group. What's more is all of his possessions--even his house--are owned by the S. Army and they are threatening to repossess it all if he doesn't break off the engagement. I understand rules are rules and the guy must adhere to them, but what is up with that rule in the first place? And the repossession to make him homeless--isn't that the opposite of the S. Army mission? I will never donate money to them again because of this. for those wanting a link to prove legitimacy to the story: http://www.google.com/search?q=salvation+army+marriage&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Who Will Stop the U.S. Shadow Army in Iraq? . Don't look to the congressional Democrats The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sellout on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental spending bill is being headlined in the media as a "showdown" or "war" with the White House, it is hardly that. In plain terms, despite the impassioned sentiments of the antiwar electorate that brought the Democrats to power last November, the congressional leadership has made clear its intention to keep funding the Iraq occupation. For months, the Democrats' "withdrawal" plan has come under fire from opponents of the occupation who say it doesn't stop the war, doesn't defund it, and ensures that tens of thousands of U.S. troops will remain in Iraq beyond President Bush's second term. "Lawmakers said they expect that Congress and Mr. Bush would eventually agree on a spending measure without the specific timetable" for (partial) withdrawal, which the White House has said would "guarantee defeat." In other words, the appearance of a fierce debate this week, presidential veto and all, has largely been a show with a predictable outcome. . ...IT IS ALL A SHOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.....A SHOW...... .

Is it illegal to lie to an army recruiter? OK i have a friend that was in JROTC and is now being constantly harassed by recruiters. They call my friends house,cell, job, go to his house, and even his job to try and talk to him. He is easily "persuaded" to do things against his will. He has gone to the recruiting office once but has never signed anything. He thought that he would like to join military having no money for school, but luckily he received a grant to continue his education (grant is no way involved with the military). And he would like to know if lying to the recruiter and saying that he can't go to the appointment is illegal or if he could be prosecuted in anyway? He has never signed any papers to my knowledge and would just like the harassment to stop. If you know the answer he would appreciate it and if you have any sources that would also be helpful. He is to fearful to tell the recruiter to leave him alone. Is he obligated by law to go or is it just the recruiters pressure?

How do I tell my parents to stop giving me their junk? Whenever my wife and I stop by my parent's house for a visit, they always send us off with arm loads of stuff. It would be alright if it was stuff we could use, but it isn't! It's always old clothes, worn-down appliances, etc. I keep telling them they should have a yard sale or donate it, but they always say they want us to get some use out of it. I think they just don't want to go through the hassle of getting rid of it themselves. I want to say something to them about it, but I don't want to sound ungrateful. My wife and I are apartment dwellers, and we have no room for all of this stuff! We just end up giving it to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. How do you think would be the most appropriate way to approach this subject with them?

Open statement to Gordon Brown, please feel free to express your views? As a British Person I would Like the following things done by my government..........to put first the elderly people of britain and provide them with the support and help they need to sack all senior over paid adminstrators in hospitals and to get rid of outsourced cleaners and bring them back in house. Stop giving benefits and housing to anyone who turns up with a sob story. And send the army in to turf out the illegals, stop pussy footing around people and look after the british first Tim you do not know what you are talking about.......the british army would be to find them and escort them to the airport not shoot them....the police have so much paperwork they do not have the time to do the job.......We as a country will collapse under the influx of immigrants that want to come here for all they can get. Economic migrants are working here sending their money home and screwing our economy by not spending it here.

Have you been naughty or nice? Will Santa stop at your house or keep on going? me i have been mostly nice but no visits from Santa this year stop at someones house that has children with no toys please. i have read some questions and comments on here and that is sad I hope anyone in that situation finds a way to get toys for the kids.Toys for tots, salvation army local churches hey regnarax he said if you be good now he will leave coal to remind you but also something nice that is very good Ren'ee but you usually are:)

If you are already signed with the Army ....? If you are already signed with the Army and you are leaving for boot camp in 2 weeks but you still can't sell you house. Will a foreclosure stop you from going in?

is it illegal to wear a us army cameo if you aren't in the army? my dads friend gave him an army cameo that a friend of his left over at his house and my dad wants to know if it's illegal or not. Personally i think it's a bad idea because it could be considered offensive and because then he might give the impression that he is and people might stop and thank him for his service. can you give me your opinion on this topic as well as an answer on if it's illegal. thx =] oh and it's a pair of pants and a jacket sorry i mean a button down shirt

I'm so sick of Army Wives? I'm wondering if any other Army wives out there have experienced this? I'm 23 years old and have been married to my husband for a little over 5 years. He is in the army (and no, I did not marry him because he was in the Army we have known each other since we were 15) Well, from the very beginning I got attitude from many wives because I am in shape and pretty. I learned that from talking to my husband because other wives in the company would tell their husband that "no" we were not invited to their parties because i'm a man stealer. I guess being pretty means I'm going after their husbands, lol go figure. I'm a very friendly person and I get along great with my husbands work buddies (with my husband by my side, never alone with any). Now just recently many of the wives have been spreading rumors about me saying that I'm a stripper, which absolutely not true! I don't understand why these wives are being so immature and mean. Some of their husbands who stop by our house after work say its because their wives are very self conscious about their weight and looks that they get mad when they see me, but that is just so juvenile! I love my husband and would never try to take their husbands from them lol So yeah, I take care of myself and look pretty so what, why all the hate from the wives and not the husbands? Thank You to all who helped. I think I will be talking to my husband about moving off the base. That seems like the best solution. I'm just going to continue with getting my degree and ignore these immature women. :)

I'm so sick of other Army wives? I'm wondering if any other Army wives out there have experienced this? I'm 23 years old and have been married to my husband for a little over 5 years. He is in the army (and no, I did not marry him because he was in the Army we have known each other since we were 15) Well, from the very beginning I got attitude from many wives because I am in shape and pretty. I learned that from talking to my husband because other wives in the company would tell their husband that "no" we were not invited to their parties because i'm a man stealer. I guess being pretty means I'm going after their husbands, lol go figure. I'm a very friendly person and I get along great with my husbands work buddies (with my husband by my side, never alone with any). Now just recently many of the wives have been spreading rumors about me saying that I'm a stripper, which absolutely not true! I don't understand why these wives are being so immature and mean. Some of their husbands who stop by our house after work say its because their wives are very self conscious about their weight and looks that they get mad when they see me, but that is just so juvenile! I love my husband and would never try to take their husbands from them lol So yeah, I take care of myself and look pretty so what, why all the hate from the wives and not the husbands? Thank You to all who helped. I think I will be talking to my husband about moving off the base. That seems like the best solution. I'm just going to continue with getting my degree and ignore these immature women. :)

I'm thinking about joining the Army National Guard? I am low on money and I lost my job, plus I am a full time college student. My Mom is sick and tired of me and won't stop making my life a living hell until I leave her house. But I don't have money to do that. Is the National Guard a good way to pay for college and living expenses? Will I get deployed to Iraq or something if I join? Is there any other information that I should know about? If so, what?

Do you agree that unauthorized wearing and misuse of Army Uniform is a big evil and promotes militancy? AWFUL MISUSE AND HUMILIATION OF ARMY UNIFORM I am reproducing the relevant text of some of the press reports from across the country and the world depicting the dastardly acts of militants clad in Army uniform, the likes of which have been shaking up the world for ages. *Militants in Army uniforms mowed down 25 villagers in Champanan. The act was repeated in Thakrai and Sarban villages near Kishtwar. Dressed in olive green Army uniforms, the ultras killed innocent villagers in cold blood. On its part, the administration had given several assurances that the recurrence of such incidents would be checked. *Once again, the militants used combat uniforms to gain entry into the residential area of the Army family quarters when they struck, killing 30 people and injuring another 50. When they boarded the Himachal Roadways bus near Vijaypur town early in the morning, all passengers took them to be bonafide Army personnel carrying weapons. As such, there was no reason for the passengers to panic. Later, when the militants asked the driver to stop near the Kalu Chak Army camp, he obliged thinking they had reached their unit area and wanted to get down. It was seconds later when they opened fire that the other passengers realized the gravity of the situation, but by then it was too late. The incident has highlighted the government’s failure to check the open and uncontrolled sale of cloth used for making Army uniforms in the markets throughout the region. Though district magistrates (DMs) of various districts have, from time to time, sought to check the sale of this cloth, their orders have remained mere words which were never enforced. The then Chief Minister, Mr Farooq Abdullah readily admitted the government’s failure to check the open sale of cloth used for making Army uniforms though it has been misused by the militants time and again. However, he said that henceforth, the government would pass such orders as would be strictly enforced and seek to punish the errant shopkeepers. The then Governor Girish Chander Saxena said going by the number of incidents in which militants wearing Army uniforms had carried out different types of attacks, it was imperative to ban the open sale of uniform cloth. Asked how such ban orders would be implemented when the government had failed to do so in the past, senior civil and police officials said if the government showed the will, they had the wherewithal to enforce the orders. *Stepping up violence, heavily-armed militants in military uniform stormed an Army camp killing seven jawans and injuring six others at Akhnoor. *One Brigadier and seven jawans were killed, and 12 injured when three militants in Army uniforms attacked an Army camp in Tanda, about 40km north of Jammu on the road to Poonch. The militants alighted from a vehicle and began firing at the security guards at the 610 EME Battalion Camp. They managed to enter deep inside the camp hurling grenades and opening indiscriminate fire, disguising themselves as Army personnel. The attack came less than 12 hours after an attack by Army uniform clad militants in Banganga near Katra in which six devotees were killed. The site is on the way to the Vaishno Devi shrine. *Just when reports in the media suggested that things were looking up in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K,) came a major suicide attack by Army uniform clad militants on an Army camp at Sanjwan near the state's winter capital, Jammu. The attack came on the final day of the then President A P J Abdul Kalam's visit to the region. Militants, dressed in Army uniforms, cut their way through fencing to enter the Army camp and then made their way to a barrack and shot dead about 12 sleeping Army personnel. The two militants were killed in the encounter that followed. A little-known group, the al-Nasireen, has claimed responsibility for the attack. Indian intelligence agencies, however, believe that the attack was masterminded by the Lashkar-e-Toiba and was made easy by the local shopkeepers selling various items of Army uniform. *At least 20 Islamic militants of Fatah Islam were killed when they launched an attack against the Lebanese Army from a position located in the Nahr al- Bared Palestinian refugee camp. Two Army soldiers were also killed. The Fatah Islam militants were trying to escape from the camp when the Army confronted them. Some twenty were killed and several others were wounded. The militants were dressed in Lebanese Army uniforms. *Suspected al-Qaida militants wearing Iraqi Army uniforms killed up to 13 people in a raid on a district south of Baghdad. Clad in Military uniform, militants have killed two Iraqi soldiers and eight members of an anti-al-Qaeda group near the Baghdad capital. The activists raided a checkpoint in a village south of the capital. The militants took with them an army vehicle and raided the Hawr Rajab Awakening Council Headquarters. *Pakistani gunship helicopters launched fresh attacks on pro-Taliban bunkers in the troubled northwest, as clashes left nearly 100 militants dead. Militants "disguised some of their dead bodies in the uniform of the Frontier Constabulary" to make it appear as if they were soldiers. *Taliban militants wearing Afghan Army uniforms attacked a remote NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, leaving two Afghan soldiers dead and 11 alliance soldiers wounded. The militants wearing Afghan Army uniforms approached the NATO's forward operating base in mountainous Nuristan province, before launching the attack. *The LTTE cadres in Army uniform exploded a claymore mine and directed small arms fire at Kalvettai in Marudankulam Vavuniya. The PLOTE Leader said that was a very dangerous trend. "We have heard of similar attacks earlier but at that time we did not have any concrete evidence. This time round, we are positive that it was the LTTE cadres in the Sri Lanka Army uniforms who were firing at unarmed civilians to put the blame on the Army," he said. *The SLA in Jaffna said that it caught two robbers who were looting a house around. The SLA said that the robbers were civilians dressed in army uniforms. **************** In our country, most of the Security Guards at Malls, Hotels and Restaurants, Corporate Houses, Factories and other public places attire themselves in uniform which comprises of a number of items of Army uniform, and wear it in such a shoddy manner that it brings an awful disrepute to the uniformed soldiers. Photographs, appearing in the newspapers, of the camps and hideouts of various militant groups across the globe disclose the rampant misuse of Army uniform by their cadres. School and college going children adorn themselves in combat trousers or combat vests, not realizing an iota of the sanctity attached to the fabric. Commercial film makers do the maximum damage. A comedian will attire himself in an Army uniform and conduct himself in such a disgraceful manner which certainly makes his character quite comic, but at a huge cost. The nation pays tribute to a soldier who gives the supreme sacrifice of his life for safeguarding its territorial integrity, by draping his mortal remains in the National Tricolour before being laid to rest. Then why is his uniform subjected to extreme indignity and humiliation – the uniform which is a matter of pride for him from the day he joins the Army, the uniform to which he gives the utmost regards all throughout his life and the uniform in which he fights, breathes his last and sleeps forever, for the tomorrow of the nation. We all in the nation need to take on the onerous responsibility of putting in concerted efforts to revive the respect and glory of the Army uniform. All the four estates of our democracy – the media, the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, alongwith the ever important support of the citizens, need to combine to take this noble step, which will have far reaching consequences towards creation of a better nation, a nation - we all will be proud of.

Has anybody had this problem with neighbors on base housing? My neighbor next door is a pill junkie. She does anything and everything to get her hands on prescription drugs. She goes to the emergency room at least 2 times a week and they keep giving her all these drugs. She's on at least 5 different anti depression drugs and like 4 or 5 anti anxiety medication plus pain medication. She's like a walking zombie on this stuff. She goes to the emergency room for anything from headaches to hemmroids. She is very nice and good hearted but when she is on this stuff she is extremely annoying. Her husbands command is ready to kick him out of the Army because she causes so many problems with these drugs. At times she has even been known to smoke crack. Both my husband and myself try to tell her in a polite way that she needs to stop,we've even told her husband we dont like her when she's like this. We live in an apartment and she can see when we are home so we cant not open the door or she'll keep knocking. I just dont know what to do anymore. sorry for talking about your wife! :) not at Bragg we're at FT. Drum She doesnt go to a base hospitol she goes out in town. His command already knows about it and they just tell him to send her home. The MPs were here last week because she passed out on the toilet going to the bathroom. I tell her that she addicted but she has a million and one excuses for why she needs all of it. The funny thing is I've done all these things. I told her husband to send her to rehab, the MPs know her already, her doctor has too know that he's doping her up and he refuses to give her a referal to se anyone else for pain management. Even housing knows she's like this-they thinks she's crazy. I dont understand how all these people know and no body does anything.

is there anyway to push a discharge from the army My husband serves in the 82nd airbourne...he is a war veteran, and has been in the 82nd for going on three years now. Last year while still in Iraq he resigned. We was married in jan after he returned in october, ANYWAYS... as soon as we moved in together i noticed he had an odd sleeping pattern he would wake up constantly and would twitch non stop during the night, he would get the shakes and break out in sweats and would even fall off the bed and scream for everone to "take cover"...he would frequently wake up in the middle of the night and freak out b/c he couldnt remeber where he was or how he got there! He had a HORRIBLE way of covering his problems w/ alcohol and around the time of his fathers death((march)) i had just got him to stop drinking completely..needless to say things got worse. He would litterally just snap for no reason over the smallest things, and wouldnt remeber it later ((this definitly drove a wedge in between us)) around april I had had enough and convinced him to seak professional help. He did but it was hard to get to his sessions b/c of his job ((apparently they didnt see he despretly needed this help)) He had seen his therapist about a month and i found out i was expecting ((already a month along)) and I'm guess w/ the stress of the baby and everything else of him finally WANTING and knowing he needed to get help for his family he snapped he admitted himself into the ward where he stayed for weeks. to make a long story short this went on for about a month they would let him out and he would attempt suicide or his co would try to make him go to the field ((he was medicated and not allowed to be around weapons b/c he had threatened to hurt someone in higher rank)) After about the third time of gettin out the hospital and being on watch b/c he refused to go to the field ((and be around all these loaded weapons)) he was DEMOTED we lost $400 out of our pay!! now here i am preg and stressed b/c of it being high risk and my husband not being around, and there is no way to make ends meet w/ this pay and me not being able to work.... they are talking about yet ANOTHER demotion so another $450 gone out of our pay...i dont know how we are supposed to support our family, ive lost my car, there is no way for me to get medical help b/c we need more ins which we CANT afford I owe the hospitals about $600 for different tests and if something doesnt break we will loose his car and our house...ive talked to the co and everyone else they would let me speak to and they all say the same thing, christian is faking this so they wont help! the lawyers ive talked to have said the 82nd have ways around EVERYTHING and Ive wrote richard burr and elizibeth dole and they havent taken action...im now 4 months preg, and sadly my husband gets paid less than min wage for risking his life and his family everyday... we need help....ASAP..if ANYONE has ANY advice id surely appricate it he has papers saying he is unfit for duty, he cant be around live ammo, needs to be medicated and cant pull 24 hour duty. Its not about maning up or him not wanting to be in the army, he would LOVE to finish up his contract, he would even settle to switch jobs the problem is gettin around the 82nd to help him do ANYTHING...

I sliced my finger with a knife on accident? i was at the hospital today with my friend francesco, he had a swiss army knife and i brought a grapefruit at the cafe there when we got out i sliced the grapefruit with the knife and accidently sliced my finger and blood poured out i dint go in to get it bandaged because i felt so stupid for what i did . i cleaned it up at my house and stopped the bleeding but if i move my thumb it bleeds. is there a remedy to stop the bleeding?

Does this mean american's will stop boasting about being the last superpower? America cant beat a 5th rated nation, you lost, your power is and was an illustion. Former US secretary of state Colin Powell says the US military is "about broken" and can not handle any plans to boost the troop numbers in Iraq. There are really no additional troops. All we would be doing is keeping some of the troops who were there there longer, and escalating or accelerating the arrival of other troops." said Powell. "I'm suggesting that what General Schoomaker (the US army's top general, Peter Schoomaker) said the other day before a committee looking at the (US military) Reserves and National Guard, that the active army is about broken," he added. Powell also served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- the White House's main military advisory body -- from 1989 to 1993, under the current president's father, President George HW Bush. "General Schoomaker is absolutely right," he said. The former top US diplomat, who said the US army is not large enough to secure Baghdad .

Did you know that the Mexican Army is involved in helping illegals commit crimes in USA? It appears to me no matter how many faxes, emails, letters and phone calls we make to Congress requestiong they do something to ptoect us at our border, our pleas continue to land on deaf ears. Below is information about the illegal activities by the Mexican military against America, from The Minutemen. Please take a look, and give your feedback? What more can Americans do? Thanks. Please find below a special message from MinutemanHQ.com. They have some important information to share with you. Please find below a special message from MinutemanHQ.com. They have some important information to share with you. Thank you, ConservativeAlerts.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEXICAN ARMY HAS VIOLATED OUR BORDER 253 TIMES 7558 W. Thunderbird Road Ste. 1 PMB 622 Peoria, AZ 85381 :: Phone (520) 829-3112 ALERT: OUR SOVEREIGNTY IS BEING NULLIFIED BY MEXICAN MILITARY 17—The number of times armed Mexican soldiers violated our porous borders in 2006. 29—The total number of times Mexican soldiers violated our porous borders in 2006. 253—That is the DOCUMENTED number of times Mexican soldiers and Mexican law enforcement personnel violated our porous borders in order to traffic drugs and weapons in and out of our country from 1996 to September 30, 2006. 1,000—The number of times U.S. Border Patrol agents in 2007 were attacked while attempting to secure our borders without the necessary resources from the U.S. federal government. This week, the United States House of Representatives returns to work and it our mission to ensure that they restore the $3 Billion dollars in funding they stripped towards the construction of the border fence from the Homeland Security Department’s budget. It is the constitutional duty of our elected officials to protect our national security and sovereignty of this nation, and to ensure the safety of its legal citizens, rather than continue to tolerate lawlessness and disorder. Our country cannot sustain another great wave of economic, cultural and environmental exploitation by another 12 million people illegally entering under the cover of darkness—or even in the bright desert daylight. What do these illegal entrants have to be worried about? NOTHING from those we have entrusted to govern! Our Washington lawmakers don’t care about your family’s security and well-being. That’s why they left town for Christmas last month having stripped away the same money that President Bush promised to use for the construction of a 700-plus mile physical border fence! Thus far the American people have only seen roughly 20 miles of federal border fence constructed, while our Senators would prefer to reward the illegal behavior of these illegal entrants with offers of amnesty, tax-payer provided social services, and driver’s licenses. The volunteers of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have witnessed firsthand how our country is under attack by criminal thugs who conspire with the Mexican government to do us harm through their unbridled drug trafficking, sex trafficking and violence towards our citizens. Please ACT NOW so we can demand our President and Congress defend our country from these vicious attacks and border incursions by forcefully demanding the restoration of the $3 Billion dollars previously allocated for the physical border fence. https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=1233 The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps insists that Congress, through an emergency spending bill, immediately fund and build the border fence that was promised in the 2006 Secure Fence Act. We will not wait for the 2009 battle budgets to commence later this year in hopes of securing the border in 2010 or beyond. For years, we have been alerting the public to the chaos, violence, rapes and the foreign military-supported illegal border incursions that occur routinely at the U.S.-Mexican border. But it has taken years of work for the truth to become exposed and known to the American public. Still the U.S government continues to fail to build and fund the physical border fence, because they have not heard from you enough times. As every day goes by, there is more violence and there are more graphic examples of why we must fight to secure every border and coastline throughout the United States. If our government had already built a physical border fence, we would not have to worry that our friends, family and neighbors would be at risk from violent attacks by the rapists, thugs, drug dealers, criminal syndicates and al-Qaeda terrorists who lurk among the 12 million or more unidentified illegal aliens already living throughout America—including in your local community. We would not have to worry about statistics and government documents that detail the invasions from the Mexican Army that continue to go unpunished, and without any plan to stop them. Over 2,000 illegal entrants violate our sovereign borders on a daily basis, and if you live anywhere near these cities, you may have already seen them….. Brownsville, San Diego, El Centro, Yuma, Tucson, El Paso, Laredo and McAllen…. The volunteers of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have witnessed firsthand how our country is under attack by thugs who conspire with the Mexican government to do us harm through their drug trafficking, sex trafficking and violence towards our citizens. Please ACT NOW so we can demand our President and Congress defend our country from these vicious attacks and border incursions by forcefully demanding the restoration of the $3 Billion dollars previously allocated for the physical border fence. https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=1233 For years, the U.S. Border Patrol has been defending our country, without the resources they need to do their job, trying to protect us from those who viciously prey on our country through its open borders. The documented proof of just how dangerous a job it can be to keep our country safe continues to increase daily and yet our government still does nothing. We Minutemen must start 2008 demanding that our government restore the money for the border fence construction and put the National Guard back on our frontline—the Southern border with Mexico—AND WE MUST CONTINUE OUR ADVOCACY UNTIL THE BORDER FENCE IT BUILT AND OUR NATIONAL SECURITY IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED! Make no mistake—we are under attack! When the Mexican army escorts drug dealers across the border, they send assailants to distract and imperil our U.S. Border Patrol agents by hailing rocks, bottles, bricks and sometimes bullets, so their friends in the gangs and international drug cartels can transport their narcotics and underage girls and boys for sex trafficking into our country. While “the assailants try to distract the agents long enough to let people dash in the United States,” our border agents have become the recipients of multiple broken bones and other medical traumas which they must bravely endure, and for which we the taxpayer must foot the bill. Here are details from government documents that describe this clear and present violation of our national sovereignty: MEXICAN MILITARY ENCOUNTER (ARMED/INTENTIONAL) EL PASO – FORT HANCOCK STATION – At 2 P.M. on January 3, 2006, [Troopers] attempted to apprehend three vehicles believed to be smuggling contraband on I-10… As the vehicles approached the border, [Troopers] stated that a Mexican Military Humvee armed with a .50 caliber weapon and several soldiers were seen assisting smugglers return to Mexico… Officers then noticed several armed subjects dressed in fatigue type clothing unload the contraband into the Humvee. These subjects set fire to the stalled vehicle before leaving the area… MEXICAN POLICE INCURSION (ARMED/INTENTIONAL) TUCSON NOGALES STATION – On June 2, 2006, a Border Patrol Agent assigned to the Nogales, Arizona station encountered two Mexican Police Officers that had illegally entered into the U.S. one mile west of the Mariposa Port of Entry… the Mexican Police Officers ran back into Mexico when ordered [by Border Patrol] to remain for questioning. MEXICAN MILITARY INCURSION (ARMED/INTENTIONAL) EL CENTRO SECTOR – CALEXICO STATION – On September 16, 2006, a Border Patrol Agent assigned to the Calexico, California Station observed an individual in an olive drab uniform with a possible Mexican flag on the shoulder approximately 1230 yards north of the International Border near the Calexico POE. The individual appeared to be carrying a sidearm and was running southbound to Mexico through the vehicle lanes of the Calexico POE. The volunteers of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have witnessed firsthand how our country is under attack by thugs who conspire with the Mexican government to do us harm through their drug trafficking, sex trafficking and violence towards our citizens. Please ACT NOW so we can demand our President and Congress defend our country from these vicious attacks and border incursions by forcefully demanding the restoration of the $3 Billion dollars previously allocated for the physical border fence. https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=1233 Just a few months ago, we learned that our porous Southern border served as the gateway for “60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists [who] were smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack an Arizona Army base.” How many more stories regarding the dangers of an open border do we need to hear about before our Washington lawmakers understand that the citizens of this country will not tolerate another 9/11 style attack? As you know, our country is generally led by weak-kneed politicians whose public policies will shift with the trends of polling numbers and elite media preferences. THEY SOMETIMES TALK THE TALK, BUT THEY RARELY WILL WALK THE WALK! Their lack of action demonstrates that our brave men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol may never get the support they need to keep our families safe—unless we make our voices heard—loud and often. While we would rather just focus on our daily activities in our local communities, we cannot afford to become inattentive, over-confident or apathetic about our Minuteman mission. You can count on the open borders lobby and the Mexican government to do all in their power to see that the National Guard is NEVER posted back on our border—they have vast influence in Washington and will use it to devastating effect—if we let them. That is why we must take action NOW and voice our outrage to the political elite who refuse to help our undermanned Border Patrol agents on the border. In fact, representatives of the Mexican government are already telling us that we have NO RIGHT to defend ourselves from attacks incurred by THEIR citizens on our Border Patrol agents. The AP reported that in November 2007, “Mexico’s acting consul general in San Diego, Richard Pineda, has insisted that U.S. authorities stop firing onto Mexico soil.” Why should U.S. citizens stop defending ourselves when the Mexican Army is helping drug dealers, criminal syndicates and terrorists invade our country? Our BP agents need support and backup. It has fallen upon the volunteers of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps to continue doing the job the government refuses to do for its citizens. The volunteers of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have witnessed firsthand how our country is under attack by thugs who conspire with the Mexican government to do us harm through their drug trafficking, sex trafficking and violence towards our citizens. Please ACT NOW so we can demand our President and Congress defend our country from these vicious attacks and border incursions by forcefully demanding the restoration of the $3 Billion dollars previously allocated for the physical border fence. https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=1233 The U.S. Border Patrol has been logging the attacks against American law officers by Mexican citizens since 1990, and they’ve seen a 31% increase during just the last year. Unfortunately, when some agents recently defended themselves against attacks from Mexican thugs, a man throwing an object at an agent was shot and killed. Fortunately, that U.S. Border Patrol agent was not punished for defending himself. However, I fear that the next attack may yield another unjust and unfortunate Ramos and Compean punishment for an agent whose sole crime will have been keeping your family and mine safe in our homes! Or even worse, it is possible that the “border war” with Mexico will intensify, and bring pressure upon our weak-willed elected officials to cave into international opinion rather than tell the Calderon government that attacks against U.S. citizens and personnel will not go unanswered. Our President needs to tell al-Qaeda coming at us through Mexico what he told al-Qaeda in September 2001: you WILL PAY for moving against America! IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TELL WASHINGTON THAT THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT SECURING OUR POROUS BORDERS NOW! The Minuteman Border Fences being built by the Minutemen Movement have been a driving force compelling the federal government to finally act to construct some fence barriers, and the ranchers along the border in Arizona say it well: “The government wasn’t doing anything until the Minutemen showed up.” Minutemen must continue to keep the pressure on and ensure that these first government spans are not just for show, and make the federal government actually “BUILD IT”—talk is cheap, and virtual fence is not an actual fence. Minutemen volunteers have warned U.S. citizens that our national security, public safety, our prosperity and very sovereignty are imperiled—that our country is being invaded by terrorists, lawbreakers and alien criminals while the politicians we’ve elected, fail to protect us. We therefore call upon every citizen to pressure all Washington lawmakers to heed the warning of these vicious physical attacks on our first line of defense, the brave men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol. Washington lawmakers need to respect the will of law-abiding Americans over the agenda of the open borders lobby and beyond their own personal political ambitions—and secure our borders NOW. Stand up against the left, and against quisling sell-out political agendas, and help the Minutemen get the job done. Get the National Guard back on the line! Help us Build the Fence NOW. Show the world that the America we love does not care for empty words. We care for action! The volunteers of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have witnessed firsthand how our country is under attack by thugs who conspire with the Mexican government to do us harm through their drug trafficking, sex trafficking and violence towards our citizens. Please ACT NOW so we can demand our President and Congress defend our country from these vicious attacks and border incursions by forcefully demanding the restoration of the $3 Billion dollars previously allocated for the physical border fence. https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=1233 We also need you to take three actions for your personal safety and our nation’s security—in the face of opposition from an alliance of liberals in the Congress, Mexico, LaRaza and the rest of the open borders lobby: 1) Continue to Build Fence Models on the Entire Southern Border! Our Fence, featured in National Geographic magazine, is the best and most affordable and effective model in the nation. Say “YES” to BUILD THE FENCE!” THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU. 2) Complete the Minuteman Border Fence at the Hodges Ranch! Our fence construction is completely supported by private donations. The Minutemen are a volunteer organization and will only build fence sections as donations are available. Say “YES” to BUILD THE FENCE!” THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU. 3) Help the Minutemen Keep the Pressure on—the Feds WERE building some limited fence spans, but Pelosi and the Democrats have JUST STRIPPED already approved Fence funding from the Federal Budget! The Feds have pulled appropriations for building real barrier fence, and are wasting millions of dollars on failed “virtual” fence technology allocations, stalling and delaying construction of “ACTUAL” barrier fence—because there is NO POLITICAL WILL IN WASHINGTON TO SECURE OUR BORDERS! DON’T FALL FOR THEIR PUBLIC RELATIONS “CHARM OFFENSIVE”—WE NEED TO RESTORE FUNDING, AND KEEP BUILDING! We MUST KEEP THE PRESSURE ON THEM to SUSTAIN FUNDING AND CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULES in order to get them and keep them building ACTUAL FENCE! Say “YES” to BUILD THE FENCE!” THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU. Donate NOW so we can PRESSURE Washington TO RESTORE the funding for the Border Fence! https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=1233 Finish the Hodges Minuteman Border Fence Now! There is hope on the horizon to demonstrate to the nation and the Feds WHAT WORKS, but it will take the same stalwart dedication you have already shown. With your support we will be able to construct a barrier that will set the Fence standard for the Feds of ACTUAL, affordable impenetrability—thwarting the attempts of illegal aliens to invade this country. It will cost about $400,000 to finish the Hodges Ranch span and install full security FOMGuard technology in the ground at $250 per foot of fence. I know it’s a lot of money. But we cannot secure America on the cheap. And this is vastly less expensive and vastly more effective than what the federal government is paying for what little physical fencing they are actually getting into the ground. Say “YES” to BUILD THE FENCE!” THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU. We are asking everyone who has already generously sacrificed to immediately send a $50 Donation Today. Doing so would complete our current project in Bisbee, AZ, and greatly empower our allies in Congress who want to show Washington a working model of ACTUAL, affordable FENCE! Donate NOW to Build the Minuteman Border Fence https://secure.responseenterprises.com/mmfence/?a=1233 Send your support now to build the Minuteman Border Fence and show our government what it means to TRULY secure the border against events such as Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Join your fellow American citizens who say “Never Again!” We the people must be vigilant and prepared, and our national territory must be defended! Your country needs you now! We Minutemen and women need you now! If you are one of the thousands who have already contributed to building the Minuteman Fence, we thank you for your sacrifice—but we need you if possible to redouble your efforts and donate again. If you have never donated we ask you to join us by making a generous financial contribution AND by becoming a Minuteman Volunteer. Donate NOW so we can PRESSURE Washington into restoring funding for the Border Fence through an emergency spending bill. https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=1233 VOLUNTEER NOW to Build the Minuteman Border Fence https://secure.responseenterprises.com/mmfence/registration.php?a=1233 America needs a FENCE! IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FAILS IN ITS CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY, WE THE CITIZENS MUST CONTINUE TO ACT. We have a monumental challenge ahead to raise $55 million for the whole southern border if necessary, and BUILD IT NOW. Nothing the federal government has undertaken or proposed will do the job properly, even if they actually followed through on their false promises. We urgently need your help for this citizen effort to succeed. With your contribution TODAY, MCDC can make America more secure by continuing to empower citizen volunteers in their active support of the Minuteman Border Fence. Help us complete the Hodges Ranch span. We CAN show the federal government what border security IS, and how IT CAN BE DONE! The Feds are ONLY building fence at all, and pretending to build fence, because the MINUTEMEN are building fence. We must keep the pressure on them, and keep the truth of this effort in front of the American people! Be sure to send this to EVERYONE you know who wants to help STOP illegal aliens at the border! Thank you! Donate NOW so we can PRESSURE Washington TO RESTORE the fence funding immediately through an emergency spending bill. https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=1233 VOLUNTEER NOW to Build the Minuteman Border Fence https://secure.responseenterprises.com/mmfence/registration.php?a=1233 Within the next year, thousands of more thugs, terrorists and international drug cartel “soldiers” will harm our citizens unless we put the National Guard back on our Southern border. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF OUR LAWMAKERS TO KEEP THEIR OATH OF OFFICE, PROTECT AND DEFEND AMERICA FROM ALL ENEMIES! Your support can make the difference by helping us to do the job our government refuses to do! Thank you. For the Security of America, Carmen Mercer, Vice President Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Director, Minuteman Border Fence P.S. HELP US STOP the terrorists from invading our country through its porous borders. Donate NOW so we can force Congress to restore the funding and resume immediate construction of a physical border fence. https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=1233

Can i legally stop a man stay in our house that i pay the mortgage on my though we are separated? Hi there, I am currently separated from my wife. I am in the Army and working away and live in Forces Accommodation during the week. I come back to my house every other weekend to be with my Children. Recently my wife has started seeing another man and i know he has been spending the night there when im away. I don't give a damn that she is seeing anyone, that's her Business but what is annoying me is the fact that i am paying the mortgage and the secure loan on the house. I SLEEP on the floor or couch when i come home as i refuse to ask my children to move out of there rooms for me. Can i stop her bringing this man in legally, I don't want to upset my children and they say he is OK. but its just the fact that i am paying for him to stay over when he is away from work or his own house. I cant force her to sell the house. What can i do. We have NO separation agreement and i have not yet started divorce proceedings. She has stated she doesn't want CSA whilst i continue to pay the mortgage, However i have worked out that if i pay her CSA and make her pay her half of the mortgage i would be £200 better of a month. Any ideas what i should do. There is no way i would win a court battle to gain custody of the children I travel 420 miles round trip to see my children and this costs me money. So any spare money i have seem to be spent on fuel or food for my children when i come home and paying of bills.

How can I tell if my girlfriend loves me, or not? If not is she too scarred to tell me that she doesnt? Me n my girlfriend was gr8 b4 I went to the army, Now im home she wont spend hardly anytime with me and she has been goin to house partys and stopping the night at them. But she wont spend the night round mine anymore. Is she cheating on me???

Army husband is on 2nd extended tour & has now decided he wants a divorce.? This is a 2 part question: I need advice from other military wives that might be going through the same thing and also advice in regards to the military pay he's receiving and making sure that we, as his family, are taken care of. Please understand that I DO NOT want this divorce and have pleaded and begged to try to work on our marriage. This is NOT just about the money. How many other Army wives are finding that the men they married are not the same men anymore? My husband was in the IRR and was stop lossed in 2006. (he should have been able to resign his commission in Sept and was stop lossed in Aug and given orders in Dec for a 545 tour) He was home for approximately 7 months before he received another set of orders for a 400 day tour. He is currently in the middle of that tour. I did not know him in college and can only go by what friends and family say regarding the change in him when he came home from active duty the very first time. But what I can attest to is the severe change when he came home last year from the 545 day tour. The obsession with being on the computer, the mood swings, the anger, the nightmares, the anti social behavior. Because he's a cop, he refused to seek professional help for fear of putting his job in jeopardy. He slowly pulled away from all friends and family. This last April I even found out that he had an "emotional" affair with a woman for months last year. I have spoken to her and it appears she knew very little about his REAL life. She knew only what he told her. From what she says of their relationship, it appears that he often called her to "vent". They have since ceased all communications as of this past March and so I do not believe that she is a factor in his wanting a divorce. I do not think he will contact her again for the simple fact that when I called her, he knew that whatever lies he told her would be revealed to her. I have since also learned that he belongs to multiple motorcycle forums (which I remember he was always on on the computer last year when he returned home) in which he has fabricated these fantastical lives that he supposedly leads. (this is similar to the stories the other woman said that he told her) He even has multiple screen identities that even talk to each other. This computer behavior is continuing to this day. I know because I secretly monitor them and what he posts. Even overseas, he is constantly on these forums, even several times a day. (just for reference, he calls or IM's our son for approximately 15 minutes every 3 - 4 days because he is "so busy") I am not sure if this need to "escape" from their real lives is what causes this and am curious to see if other military wives are experiencing this as well. It's almost as if he doesn't want any responsibilities. Last we spoke, when I told him that one of our dogs had a bladder infection and that I had to take her to the vet, his response was .. "don't you think it's time to just put her down?" This came from a man whose dogs were a huge part of his life. I am at a complete loss as to how to reach him and help him. I love him and hate that he shuts me out. Even his closest friends look to me to find out how he is doing because he cut them out long ago. I am not a regular Army wife. When I met my husband, he was no longer active and in fact applying to local law enforcement agencies. So I mostly thought of myself as a cop's wife prior to his first tour, which was 4 years after we were married. I do not, nor have I ever lived on post. The nearest Army base is hundreds of miles away from us in fact. And so I've muddled my way through. During his first tour, I worked full time. Last Dec I was laid off. This was about the same time that he received his 2nd set of orders. I made the decision to move back in with my parents who live about 20 miles away. My husband was not happy with this decision. We rented out our house and currently the money we collect from the renters covers approximately 1/2 the cost associated with our home. (We still have the remainder of our mortgage, the HOA fees, homeowners insurance etc) I have since found part time work, working while our son is in school so that we do not have to pay for child care, to help subsidize living expenses. My husband has always handled the finances. I've never even seen a paystub from him. He does cover the remainder of the costs associated with the house which probably total about $2100. However, he says that he can only afford to send me $500 a month for our son and our mastiffs (his mastiffs really as he has told me that he plans to take them from me upon his return). This just doesn't jive with me - the numbers do not add up. Just for reference, in the California online child support calculator, based upon what I've been able to find online on what I THINK his pay may be, he would be required to pay between $1100 - $1400 a month in child support. He is an O-3 and per our housing allowance, the closest city to us would be Oa

Dizziness and Nausea associated with Anxiety? I have been getting this weird dull dizziness and nausea for about a month now. I have traveled for the last three months non stop. And also got kicked out of my house. My husband just joined the army, and I never see him. I just get really scared and don't understand whats going on. I have been diagnosed with anxiety and am on 10 mg on paxill. Could this just be anxiety or should i seek medical?

How can i control my teenage daughter? my husband is the disciplinarian in our house, but he's in the Army so he's often away. our 15 year old daughter is outspoken, domineering and unable to follow orders. i'm very submissive and i don't know how to control her, i think she's learned this behaviour from her father. how can i stop her treating me like her doormat?

How do I find overseas employment? I am a veteran of the US Army. I am divorced, no children with me, not married to some house payment, There is nothing holding me down here. The job market, well there are a million jobs if ya only like making small wages. I have heard there is a huge need for empleyees overseas especially in Iraq and Afganistan an other places abroad. My field of expertiese is Logistics and logisticle support. Does anyone know of websites I can goto where I can view the job, howq much it makes, and where I can apply for the job. I've been fortunate to find couple. Look I milled around for 7 years hoping to get like a regular American life, ya know, the mortgage, the wife the family, and they all lived hapily ever after and all of that. Yada yada yada! Its crap! It doesn't exist. At least not for me. I am ready to just up and go, go where the jobs are. It's time to stop looking for a wife, nice house, cars, the white fense, my dream of a family life, realize its a pipe dream and just move ON! I quit!

What actions can i take against a person who is threatening me? Deep inside, i really dont want to fight. I didnt join the US army to do harm on americans. I'm receiving derogatory statements and with threats over the internet from individuals that have too much pride. I dont want to use a hand-gun, knife, taser, or anything that will bring up ideas on the opposite side if i show these weapons. I just want this unneccessary violence to stop without having to use any self-defense inventory. What can I do to stop these threats? I was too quick to save these statements that were written to me. I fear a mob will come to my house and destroy my property. Help!

Scamming the Army... who do I notify? My ex husband is currently active army. He has been emailing me requesting me to fill out paperwork giving him joint custody even though he nevers sees his kid. He doesn't even live in the states. He said that the reason he wants partial custody is because he does not want to live on base. The military will not pay for his off base housing unless he is married or has partial custody. He states that he only wants custody "on paper" to get his housing paid for/more money. This is cheating the government!! I will not fraud our military. I feel this needs to be reported and stopped but I have no idea who to contact. I have searched the internet for someone to forward the email to, or a way to find his commanding officers but I have not found anything. Can someone help?

I think a divorce would be best for me and my husband. We have two children together and he is in the army. ? He is getting basic allowance for housing and refuses to put a roof on our head! Im only 19 and he wants me to live with his parents forever! He says if I get an apartment, he will stop giving us financial help. What can I do to make the army force him to give money to me and his two children. also im living with his parents and he is not their. He is stationed in south korea and we are not allowed over there with him. His parents absolutley drive me nuts! He doesn't want me to move out because he thinks that if I am on my own I will cheat. So he wants his parents to watch my every move. I feel helpless because I'm not working because I have to take care of our two month old baby and our two year old son. some one answer quick im dying to get more info :( look u dont understand the messed up part is that he thinks that the money for the bah is all his! he wont be home for another year and a half! i cant take that long being with my inlaws!

Norfolk Social Services have once again abducted two children, should they be charged with kidnap? Once again the lying toads of Norfolk Social Services have abducted, and I use the word literally, two children. Not because they were being abused or neglected, but because their grandparents are members of the Salvation Army. This slither of scum masquerading as child protectionists, have place the kids with foster parents who have stopped the children saying their prayers. "We don't do God in this house." they said. This is a gross abuse of the children's right to express their religious beliefs... Earlier I claimed that the children were not being abused, they are - by Norfolk Social services.

I would rahter see president George Bush re-elected in the white house? As a person president George Bush worked his way into the white to become the person he is today .President George Bush needs more ground in mind of thought to stay in the white house becoming a green economic leader in a way that can stop wars and the world it elf turning against terror without the help of the Army of the world as a enjoyable free society fights its own terror.Myself David would take shot guns off the population and melt them down into a Harley Davidson and call the motor cycle shot gun. I would like to buy american tools or australian tools at a leveled price instead of chinese assholes that skin my nuckles when the tools break.

I'm enlisting in the Army, worried about my family's reaction.? I've chosen to enlist in the Army. I'm 19, college drop out. I really think the Army is what I need to find a purpose, gain self discipline and get my life in order. I've given it plenty of thought and I want to go ahead with it. I know my family will be completely 100% opposed to the idea, so I've decided to enlist before I tell them, otherwise they will only try to stop me at all costs. The thing I'm worried about is the possibility that they will be so angry that they'll kick me out of the house. If this happens I don't know how I will have the money to get all the stuff I need to bring to basic, were I'll live before I ship off and how I'll have the time to get in shape and prepare myself mentally while not having my families support. I don't think that it's that likely of a scenario, I hope they'll concerned for my well being and want to help me get ready, but if the worst happens what can I do? WIll my recruiter help me get my shit in order if I'm throw out?

I would Israelis feel if another country invaded Israel and destroyed their houses and killed their people? The main problem with the Israeli invasion is that it is killing far more innocent civilians than it is killing Hamas fighters. Were those women and children killed by Israelis a threat to Israel? Why is Israel possessed with so much hatred against the Palestinians? Is Israel being oppressed by the Palestinians? Just because Israel has a powerful military that does not imply that they have to use it in such excessive way against a country that do not even have an army. I think it is time for Israel to stop being so aggressive. Thanks for your answer.

Can i join the army if i have a slight form of asthma? Well i am 16 and want to sign up to join infantry in the british army. Sometimes in a place in particular my asthma rides up on me. Like when i go to 1 of my firends house if im staying in the morning i will wake up with a tight chest and need to use an inhaler.Might be because its cold sometimes or myabe the dogs hair or something never sure about the reason their. Also sometimes If i go running in the cold sometimes it will come again not that bad, i am able to cope with it and carry on running but an inhaler would help me out with the little bit of pain it causes me Will this stop me from getting in ?

I can't stop hating my dad? My dad does not deserve my love. He left my mom when she was pregnant from me, but later he got back with her. They're living together.He has lots of money (2 completely paid houses that each are worth more than $120,000) and also a third house in a foreign country and he doesn't buy me clothes so i have only 3 pairs of jeans. I live in poverty while he is wealthy, will i live in his house because im 16 but i barely have old clothes. I hate him so much. My sister is going to college and he didn't even help her with nothing and he made her life miserable telling her that she is worthless and he said he disowned her. He makes my life miserable he doesn't hurt me physically but emotionally. He is always complaining how he spent money on me when i was a baby. All my clothes i have are from the salvation army. My mom works but she is those type of submissive women that lets him get all her checks because he is planning to buy more property. He says that the reason why he is not going to spend money on us is because if he doesn't save for himself he is afraid that when we were adults and he was an older man we would put him in a nursing home. he is selfish and he has told us in our own faces. i don't want to hate him cuz i know is wrong but i have those feelings. i am pretty sure that if he died i wouldn't evev cry for him. i want to stop hating him because i know is wrong the thing is that i treat him nicely but i can't take any longer and i talk back to i tell him the truth and he gets furious and he is only threatening to beat me up.

320 Useless Facts Most Intresting One? 1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen. 2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen. 3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had. 4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person. 5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels. 6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself. 7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim. 8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. 9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper. 10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son. 13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number. 14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. 15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately). 16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. 17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan. 18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903. 19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2. 20. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk. 21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar 22. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print. 24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino. 25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled. 26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards. 27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively). 28. Camel's have three eyelids. 29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day. 30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. 31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister. 32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system. 33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps. 34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape. 35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses. 36. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. 38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce". 39. Slugs have four noses. 40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. 41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil). 42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows. 43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS) 44. 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There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. 53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks. 54. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday. 55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. 56. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. 57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. 59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original. 60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. 62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar). 63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". 64. IBM's motto is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different". 65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget. 66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 67. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is. 69. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service. 70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived. 71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes. 72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's. 73. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from. 74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide. 75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward). 76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles". 77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. 78. One in ten people live on an island. 79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%. 81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Star Trek. 84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. 85. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model. 86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head. 87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia). 88. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas. 90. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator. 93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 94. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public). 95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 96. Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet." 97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South). 98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company's first ads in 1896. 99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity. 100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. 101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive. 102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome". 103. A snail can sleep for 3 years. 104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide. 105. China has more English speakers than the United States. 106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes. 107. One in every 9000 people is an albino. 108. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 110. Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury. 111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on. 112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten. 113. Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing. 114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere. 115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. 116. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. 117. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity. 119. About 55% of all movies are rated R. 120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually. 121. Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India. 122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. 123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. 125. There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. 126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 127. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. 128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 129. There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world. 130. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick. 131. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building. 134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000. 135. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 136. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT". 137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy. 138. Almonds are members of the peach family. 139. Rats and horses can't vomit. 140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim. 141. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. 142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance. 143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 144. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 145. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. 147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a character's parents are present and don't die during the movie. 148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. 149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure. 150. Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies. 151. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21. 153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 154. All polar bears are left-handed. 155. The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal) 156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. 157. Butterflies taste with their feet. 158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump. 159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 160. Starfish have no brains. 161. 11% of the world is left-handed. 162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later. 163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 165. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. 166. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray. 168. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months. 170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A. 171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour. 173. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second. 175. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade. 176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old. 177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. 178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured. 179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it. 181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. 182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. 183. Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Link." 184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white. 185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother. 186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. 187. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes. 188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump." 189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth. 190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army abbreviation for General Purpose. 193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. 194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 195. Cats' urine glows under a black light. 196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip. 197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970. 198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items. 199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated. 200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet. 201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). 202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. 203. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined. 204. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition). 205. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". 206. Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older. 207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. 208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S. 209. The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet. 210. A jellyfish is 95% water. 211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001). 212. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day. 214. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. 215. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle) 216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a score of 10. 217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined. 218. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. 219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple. 220. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross. 222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France. 223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the stadium becomes Nebraska's third largest city. 224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life". 225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50. 227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers. 228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5. 229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal. 230. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand. 231. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119. 232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner. 233. Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary. 234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z. 235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years. 236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. 238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day. 239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. 240. You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. 241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 242. "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. 243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330. 244. The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies. 245. "Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. 246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. 247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. 248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world). 249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. 250. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. 251. At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves. 252. Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $2,000,000. 253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer. 254. People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond. 255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Trust". 256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks. 257. A shrimp's heart is in its head. 258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion. 259. The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+) 260. Pearls melt in vinegar. 261. "Lassie" was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal. 262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself. 263. Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag. 264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible. 265. Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. 266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol. 267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House. 268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther. 269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census. 270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world. 271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment. 272. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash. 273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed. 274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice. 275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen. 276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital. 277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day. 278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people. 279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q). 280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech. 281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. 282. Only female mosquitoes bite. 283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail. 284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells. 285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age. 286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female. 287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Girl in the Moon). 288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system. 289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas. 290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel. 291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died. 292. Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit. 293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives." 294. The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player. 295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open. 296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person). 297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today. 298. While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Treaty of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951). 299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated. 300. The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands. 301. The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst". 302. Don Mac Lean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same plane crash. 303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard. 304. Hummingbirds can't walk. 305. When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969). 306. Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing). 307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence (7/1/1967). 308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history. 309. William Shatner is credited for being the first person on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek. 310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its supply of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY. 311. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf. 312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works. 313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men. 314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex. 315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for pleasure. 316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter "P". 317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616. 318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population). 319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. 320. The "middle finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds".

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I need an A on this test! please help! 1: Which of the following made possible the American industrial growth of the late 1800s? the household economy technological advances * government reforms the development of labor unions 2: Which of the following revolutionized American communications in the late 1800s? steam engines and steamships the telegraph and telephone * a workable light filament refrigeration and sewing machines 3: One of Thomas Edison's major accomplishments was developing a more efficient way to make steel inventing the telegraph and telephone helping to make electricity more widely available * preaching the "gospel of wealth" 4: Andrew Carnegie argued that the success of wealthy industrialists helped the entire nation * should be limited by the government was illegal according to the Sherman Antitrust Act had no effect on average Americans 5: During the late 1800s, children often worked in factories because their parents believed in the process of "natural selection" families needed the income to survive * employers offered high wages to skilled children there were no public schools for children to attend 6: One thing a person could do in 1900 but not in 1865 was ride on a train sew a dress play a phonograph * read at night 7: Which statement best describes the lifestyle of homesteaders? Homesteaders lived in isolation and avoided social contact. Most women worked outside their homestead. * Homesteaders lived simple and secure lives. Homesteaders often had to struggle even for the necessities. 8: Which one of the following is a lingering myth about the West? It was settled by a variety of races. * Settlers were nearly all white males. Settlers nearly destroyed Native American peoples. Western settlement damaged the environment. 9: Farm mechanization resulted in an increase in farm production a decline in the number of eastern farms * the end of bonanza farms stable crop prices 10: What was one key requirement that applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act? They had to live on the land all year long. * They had to farm the land for five years in a row. They had to file a claim with a bank. THey had to whel portable cabins from plot to plot. 11: What drew many new immigrants to the West? the opportunity to learn new languages the climate on the plains "land-grant" colleges cheap land and new jobs * 12: How did new technology help farmers on the Great Plains? It saved them time and effort It eliminated insect pests * It made crops drought-resistant It lowered their dabt 13: During the late 1800s, the port of entry for the majority of immigrants was Boston * San Francisco Philadelphia New York 14: Which of the following was a major result of both immigration and the increaded productivity of factory jobs in the late 1800s? the rapid expansion of urban areas * mechanization of agriculture high wages for factory workers overpopulation of the South 15: In the 1890s, immigration patterns shifted dramatically, with most immigrants now coming from northern European countries southern and eastern European countries * Mexico and Central America China and Japan 16: One reason that the United States became more urban during the late 1800s is that farm mechines and factory-made goods reduced the need for farm labor * nobody wanted to live on farms anymore immigrants did not know how to do farm work union organizing of farm workers had not yet begun 17: Which of the following attacted many immigrants to the United States? the military draft strong alien land laws a chance at a better life * labor unions 18: Where did European immigrants often settle in the United States? in western railroad towns in their ports of entry * in the South near lakes 19: When African Americans left southern farms in the late 1800s, where did they relocate? in western minig towns in Mexican border towns in nearby cities * in suburbs 20: Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of cities? migration to the suburbs improvements in transportation construction of skyscrapers * immigration 21: Which of the following best characterizes urban areas in the early 1900s? slums and tenements a growing middle class population open spaces, trees, and grass ethnically mixed neighborhoods * 22: Which became the most popular American sport during the late 1800s? football baseball * basketball hockey 23: In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional established the "separate-but-equal" doctrine, upholding segregation * ordered public school districts to upgrade schools for African Americans ordered universities to enroll more women and African Americans 24: Which of the following factors helped to reduce household chores by 1900? technological advances * smaller homes inexpensive domestic help division of labor among family members 25: Which of the following were popular forms of entertainment in the late 1800s? vaudeville moving pictures trolley parks all of the above * 26: Which was a result of the Spanish-American War? Cuba became a Spanish protectorate Puerto Rico and Guam were made US territories Spain admitted it had blown up the Maine The Philippines won independence from foreign rule * 27: The building of the Panama Canal was important because it helped staballize the economies of Latin American countries improved relations between Colombia and the United States facilitated movement between Atlantic and Pacific ports * promoted European investment in the United States 28: Under imperialism, the stronger nation attempts to dominate a weaker country sell its products to a weaker country create an empire all of the above * 29: Most Progressives argeed that the government should nationalize industries abolish home rule in cities and states protect workers and help the poor * outlaw unions 30: Woodrow Wilson won the presidential election of 1912, partly due to Taft's decision not to run for a second term the fact that he was the only candidate with a reform platform a split in the Republican vote * the lack of competition 31: Progressivism was halted by the efforts of the NAACP World War I the repeal of the prohibition amendment * the victory of the Bull Moose Party 32: Which belief was held by most Progressives? The government should be more accountable to its citizens Housing and healthcare should remain private The government should protect agricultural interests The government should intervene in unfair business practices * 33: In 1906, Upton Sinclair's novel entitled The Jungle exposed dangerous workplace conditions in the meatpacking industry for women in the garment industry for children working long hours * for miners in West Virginia and Colorado 34: One way reformers hoped to end corruption in govenrment was to establish an income tax * give voters more direct say in lawmaking provide more welfare services use the army to oust political machines 35: Many Americans became more supportive of sufrage as a result of women's activities in World War I * the Seventeenth Amendment the Bradwell v. Illinois decision the repeal of prohibition 36: The battle for women's suffrage ended with the ratification of the 16th Amendment 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment * 37: Which event sparked World War I? the sinking of the Lusitania the German-French dispute over Alsace-Lorraine Russia's quest for a warm-water port the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne * 38: Which of the following was a major factor in the decision of the United States to enter World War I? Britain's naval blockade of Germany Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare * Vladimir Lenin's rise to power in Russia France's fall to the Central Powers 39: An underlying cause of World War I was the ongoing dispute over the convoy system the web of alliances European nations created for their defense * an alliance between the autocratic rulers of Germany and Russia American insistence on neutrality 40: After Lenin seized control of Russia in 1917, Germany surrendered the Allies declared war on Russia the United States entered the war Russia withdrew from the war * 41: One of the main causes of the war, imperialism, involved invading Belgium and France acquiring uncolonized areas of the world * blockading enemy ports acting in a nation's own interest 42: The German U-boat changed the rules of naval warfare because it attacked only in the summer remained hidden and fired without warning * avoided merchant ships surfaced before firing its torpedoes 43: The death toll from World War I was the highest for American troops low, because of advances in weapons extraordinarily high * high for Germany, but low for the Allies 44: In the 1920s, many American consumers began to adopt the practice of recycling sewing their own clothes buying goods on credit * publishing their own newspapers 45: Henry Ford's dream was to sell cars that came in many colors could travel 100 miles per hour ordinary people could afford * would attract wealthy business owners 46: One result of Prohibition during the 1920s was an increase in alcoholism a decline in dancing and socializing the rise of organized crime * the creation of urban artistic colonies 47: How did life change for American women in the 1920s? Many women felt more fre to experiment with bolder styles and manners * Married women found it much easier to balance careers and family life Most women grew long hair and stopped using makeup Women began to dominate the work force, often taking leadership positions 48: Jazz was brought to northern cities by older generations musicians from the Mexico City area southern Arfican Americans * World War I veterans 49: The rise of films, radio broadcasting, and the news media all helped to bring about organized crime a national culture * the Garvey movement the Ku Klux Klan 50: During the Depression, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans made great strides in equal rights legislation often lost jobs to white laborers * were less affected than other groups were encouraged to start their own businesses 51: A major environmental crisis of the 1930s was known as the Dust Bowl * the Grapes of Wrath Black Tuesday the Great Crash 52: How did most investors react to a sudden fall in stock prices in 1929? They called in their loans They pooled money to buy stocks They raced to sell their stocks * They pledged their stocks as collateral 53: A fundamental disagreement between the candidates in the 1932 presidential election concerned whether or not the Depression existed the federal governement should try to fix people's problems Americans should offer aid to European economies any relief efforts were necessary to ease the ecnomic crisis * 54: The rise in homelessness mainly resulted from increased immigration high interest rates a decline in housing construction laid off workers losing their homes * 55: During the Depression working women were embarassed to be working respected for being family providers paid extra if they got married accused of taking jobs away from men * 56: Which New Deal agency was created to help businesses? Federal Reserve Board National Recovery Administration * Civilian Conservation Corps Home Owner's Loan Corporation 57: What criticism did many Progressives make of the New Deal? It unfairly taxed successful, hardworking people It poromoted a regimented, militaristic society It did not do enough to redistribute wealth * Many of its programs smacked of "Bolshevism" 58: The "black cabinet" was an unofficial group of African American officeholders * a loose coalition of opponents to the New Deal the nickname given to Roosevelt advisors Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes African American Cabinet members who opposed the New Deal 59: How did Roosevelt try to help business? by raising tariffs * by stabilizing industrial prices by expanding foreign trade by abolishing the minimum wage 60: How did Roosevelt's programs help farmers? by raising crop production by encouraging farmer associations by allowing Mexican labor by giving financial assistance to farmers * 61: Sit-down strikes were so successful that the Supreme Court outlawed them * employers hired only nonunion workers unions won all their demands Congress passed the Wagner Act

I am 17 years old and interested to join the British Army? i have always been thinking about joining the army since the past about 2 years now, i am currently living with my aunt and i only have a mum who is living abroad because of personal reasons. i am tired and bored of my life of living at my aunts house from past 1 year now because everybody here are just so annoying, i also cant find a job, i am currently studying a BTEC in business and finance. I love sports and i really want to have dicipled life and i also want to keep on studying while i earn and help poor people overseas. the only thing that is stopping me is my boyfriend, when ever i talk to him about joining the army he just says that he hates the army, whereas he himself have studied in an army boarding school in Pakistan so why is he stopping me? I dont want to listen to him. Can someone with experience tell me if it will be a good idea to join the army? Is it right that the minimum service you can do is 3 years?

What can I say to my teenage daughter(17) to stop her from marrying her boyfriend(17)? He's possessive and imm Both are very immature. He doesn't like either of her 2 girlfriends, and gets angry when she goes over to their houses, etc. He's in the army reserves and will do his specialized training 7/07. They want to get married right after high school graduation in 6/07. She will then go to the base while he's in training in another state. His grades are horrible, and her's are about a B avge. She wants to go to college. They have no concept of what real life finances are like. They think his army salary will pay for living expenses, college. She says she will stay at the base even when he is deployed - away from her firends, family, a college. Last time they were separated -for his basic training, they broke up, and he threatened to come after her friend (friend and a boy) She often cries when on the phone with him. He is suspicious she is doing things he doesn't want her to do. She is determined to go through with this, and wants to get out of the house; not listening to friends,fami

I'm confused and a little torn! This is a long one but good advice would be greatly appreciated!? I've been with Ted for 5 yrs, married over 2 1/2. We got together when I was 16, he was my 1st everything. We went through a lot of drama in the begining: cheating, drugs, alcohol, fist fights, etc. There was 6 mos where we weren't together or even talking & I got together with another guy, Fred. We only dated for 3 wks but we worked and lived together(he got kicked out of his house), so we grew close fast. Then Ted came back into the picture and I broke up with Fred but we stayed friends. Later Fred moved out & we drifted apart, then he went into the army. We still talked & saw ea other occasionally. A few months ago Fred came back from Afganistan and we stayed up allnight & just talked about everything. I knew I still had some kind of feelings for him, but I never realized how much. Then he told me how he felt about me & I was completely blown away, he never got over me. Ted's changed & did a 180 but I can't stop thinking about Fred! What should I do!? I have so much more in common with Fred than I do my husband. Although I love my husband, I honestly don't think I'm in love with him anymore. But I don't think I love Fred. I'm not sure if I feel this way because I never had the chance to have a relationship other than Ted, or if it's cause I cut off a good relationship (Fred) before it had a chance to florish. I think if Ted never came back into the picture I would still be with Fred. Since Fred went back to his army base in the states I haven't been able to get a hold of him and it's driving me nuts. I know if I break it off with my husband it would completely devastate him and I don't want to do that. Should I try to fall back in love with Ted, or end it and take a chance with Fred even though I haven't talked to him since Feb? Sorry this is so long but I'm really confused. Any reasonable advice will help. Oh and those names are totally fake, but the story is true. Thank you! And just so no one thinks I'm a horrible wife, my husband knows I still talk to my ex and is okay with it because of how strong our friendship was/is. He still talks to his ex occasionally for the same reason. We have an agreement that as long as we both know when we talk to them, there is no need to worry that the other is cheating cause we both know how much that hurts.

What is the deal with small children playing in the street? Granted this has been in Army housing areas, but the last few places we've lived, I've found otherwise responsible parents placing "Kids Playing" triangles in the road and allowing toddlers to ride their trikes in the street. I had one mother come up to my car and yell at me for going to fast (I was going under 10 - the speed limit was 20). While this probably wasn't the brightest reaction, I stopped and told her that the street was for cars and by letting her children PLAY in it, she was begging for them to get run over. They have ample yards for kids to play in... am I missing something that says kids should be taught to play in the street? My kids have never been allowed to ride bikes or play in the street until they were old enough to follow the rules and watch for their own traffic (my 12 year old just in the last year has been allowed to go out on his bicycle unsupervised because the street we were on tended to be a racetrack if the police weren't actively giving tickets. I didn't think to include this... the parents are out watching them while they do this, but it's usually been 2 or 3 moms and that number plus of kids. Apparently you can BUY these crazy signs. I am always amazed at stupidity. They're not busy main thoroughfares, but it's not a quiet culdesac either. The places I've seen them are normal residential streets, the speed limit is always between 10 and 20 mph on post.

Could a person be brought up on manslaughter for deliberately stressing an older person to death? I am looking to see if a manslaughter, or even murder charge, could be brought up on a person for the following: A 54 year old woman (who I will call Cassie) has been raising her 27 year old med student daughter's 4 year old twins since birth. The daugher (who I will call Angela) divorced the twin's father when they were a few months old. Angela moved in with her mother and leaves Cassie to watch the kids by herself weekdays while she lives in the dorms. Many weekends she does not come to her children at all, and simply stays at school which is 1.5 hours away. Recently, on one of the weekends Angela came to the house, she and her younger sister had a fight which became a physical fight. Although the younger sister threw the first hit, Angela had verbally instigated the fight and approached in a threatening manner. The next day she fights with her older brother. In response to losing a verbal arguement she nearly breaks his computer and throws some of his property. He returns the favor a while later by throwing some of her things outside. Angela, is in fact, notorius with her abrasive, rude, and selfish mannerisms to everyone in the family. Angela wants retribution, and she wants her mother Cassie to deal the punishment to the brother and sister. The brother lives in the finished basement with his wife and 2 small childeren. The younger sister is staying in a room upstairs for a few months while her husband completes Officer and Ranger school in the Army. Angela wants her mother to kick her sister and brother out of the house permanently so she does not have to see them when she drops in for her few hours or days every weekend to see her children. Cassie does not comply. Angela immediately removes the children from her mother's house and care and places them in the University daycare and says Cassie will never see the children unless she meets her demands. She had also gotten her car stuck in the snow by spinning out into a ditch during her tantrum and attempt to depart the house and Angela has her mother help dig her car out (this was very physically demanding on Cassie). During the next few days she renews her threats, keeps calling her mother on the phone, placing blame with the mother, etc. and making her cry; deliberately building as much stress as possible. Angela is the source of many other stressors but that would be a bit too much detail here. So here is the question. Angela is just shy of getting her medical degree from an acclaimed university, she's gotten honors and awards, has an MD finacee, so has an intimate knowledge of medical conditions, causes and effects. She is well aware of her mother's poor heath. Cassie is overweight, has high blood pressure, and other medical problems. The family has repeatedly asked her to stop deliberately stressing the mother as everyone fears this will kill her. Angela knows well that it might but persists in her behavior. If Cassie dies of stroke or heartattack during this crisis, can Angela be held accountable and brought up on charges of manslaughter or murder?

Did anyone one watch Ghost hunters lately? I'm asking here because I tried searching for it on google and all I got was alot bull dust on there but I'm trying to find the name of a house that was on there - this is what I remember of it; I think they said it was built in the 1800s. The original owner continuously built on to it because a psychic told her if she stopped that all the people that were shot by her husband (and I think his army) would come back to haunt her. So does any one recognise this story? That's the one, thanks alot.

Why do they always blame Israel before they know the whole story? If Hezbola fired a rocket from a house, or hide in that house after firing rockets, that has children in it, while Israel army didn't know that and then that house was destroied. Who is to blame? For all we know Hezbola might have "collected" dead bodies in a bobytraped house and then fired rocket from it. And where was the world when Hezbola armed itself for years, while have a impotent force in there and not even trying to disarm or even disrup Hizbola teroris activity near Unifel forces. Where does the world leader have the stomek to tell isreal to restrain her responce while knowing it might only make things be worse. It is bad that people and children get killed, but what are the other options? Those that say "Stop the figting!" can't understand that stoping it now might mean even more dead people and children in the next round! Those that realy want to save innocent lifes must think more on the future then on the past. Anyone here has a better way to deal with Hezbola without additional risk to the people of Isreal? And the the poeple of Lebanon: why do you allow Hezbola to among you? Didn't you learn from the last time it happen that it might cost your lives? Or are you willing to rist your lifes so it could be blamed on Israel? Was there any protest by the lebanise poeple agaings Hezbola actions? Do they protest the missiles that are aimed at and kill inocent israelis? I my view your earned what you got, but still i hope that this is the last time you will have to suffer this. To the one that asked why Isreal is doint it. It is since not doing it means a lot more hurt in the future. I would like to see you tell this to the family of the soldiers that have kidnaped. And Hezbolay won't even let the red crose visit them. Not responding mean more attackes from Hezbola, and with time they have more bunkers and more rocket etc. To the number of targets hit by isreal is so big is since there are many targets. This is how Hezbola works. This enable them to still send rockets into Isreal. They spend the Oil many from Iran to the people of south Lebanon so they will store weapons in there homes. No they pay with blode for the money they got...

Army Wives??? Okay... So we are hitting another snag in the relationship.... I know it has nothing to do with me persay but I am so hurt none-the-less... My fiance's buddies are all getting the "dear john" letters and now he's all full of doubt... He says he can't trust me- and catorgized me as such a female that would cheat- (Mind you, In the process of being together, I had a house with an ex business partner, which I left and BANKRUPT to get out from under that- ) I upped and left NY to go to TN.... had to go back to NY to finish the BR filings.... went back to TN to see him before he left for Iraq... Now, I know that he's hurt- he said that he ruins 98% of his relationships... hence why Im sticking this one out- when we're "on" we're on top of the world.... he just doesnt believe in EVER having a bad day... Right now I am back living with my mom in CT... and I miss him dearly... I feel that he needs to stop listening to the BS and listen to his heart, but how do I "show" trust??? This is a very Touchy subject... as we've been together for over a year.... and we met just after he filed for divorce... only thing is once she found out he was enlisted refused to sign the papers (three months later) They had only been married a year... so the whole time he's been enlisted he's been letting her "hang herself" so that he can have visitation rights (she told him if he divorced her he would never see his first born son again) AAGGGHHH... Yes I've had trust issues with him and he has with me- given HIS circumstance and given my "business partner"- both situations have been rectified and I just want him not to worry about me running out on him... I dont even talk to my old guy friends anymore out of respect for him- I dont do the club thing- I dont drink etc (I crochet for fun) I just am so confused and hurt... No- I dont believe in just "leaving him" so that advice wont be good for me... I just want to reassure him that Im NOT like those trifling women that gave those soldiers the dear john letters... I could never do that to him- I dont even THINK of another man in that aspect- I havent since we've been together... I actually got sick to my stomache when he said he was being deployed and couldnt eat etc... I just want him to see that Im doing the right thing and that Im not like that- that I am his and his alone and I dont want to lose him because his "buddies" are giving him wrong information ie "you know while you're gone she's going to be sleeping with other men, girls cant be faithful unless you're there" HELP PLEASE

Have you ever questioned the intelligence of President Bush?

What do you think of my short story scale of 1-10 ( i know there are errors caps, wrong qutations etc0? The two men approached, the fire The Taller of the two felt the timber. “Old,” He said. “Well of coarse it’s old,” said the other. “There’s no smoke coming out of it at all.” Just because there’s no smoke dose not mean it’s not newer.” “Whatever” Listen John I know your edger to find him I am too you don’t think I want to go home, heck i’m dying to go home would kill to get there.” “Yeah I know,” Said John “Sorry Mike I am edger to get there it’s just that we’ve been on his trail for two weeks now.” Mike smashed the wood with his foot “We should be off he said that fire was more then likely form last night, you and I both know that guys fast I’d guess he’s around three miles away by now.” “if we find him I’m going to Kill him,” said John. “Don’t be too edger to kill him he’s our only ticket out of this Wasteland,” said Mike. 2 “I-I think I see him” said John. Mike brought out his gun. “What, were I don’t see him.” “Just over that ridge,” said John. “That Gentlemen would be wrong.” Mike and John turned at the same the time to see the man they were looking for. Ben Sage. They stood there just looking at him for a minute A man of about 6’5 Long brown Hair, Blue Eyes and wearing a Black Jacket a black hat and a shirt that said “War Pigs” Below there was a picture of a pig with a bullet in his head. “You Son of a- “Ahh there’s no need for that language young Jonathan,” said Ben “John brought out his revolver but before he could even shoot Ben Shade was behind him with his gun out “That Was not a very smart move Johnny boy, now I suggest if you actually want to catch me you best move faster.” And with that he hit John in the head with his revolver and disappeared. Mike moved over to John “Are you alright John?” Asked Mike. “yeah I think i’m alright but that hurt.” Of course it’s going to hurt, why in the heck would you pull a gun on that guy man you know that Ben Sage is the fastest Man around here he could have had six shots in your gut before you even knew he had fired,” said Mike” 3 After about three hours of walking John and Mike stumbled upon an old rundown town “Wonder who lives here,” Said John. “No one more then likely,” replied Mike Just as Mike said that they both herd a movement, well a sound really the sound of a hammer of a gun being pulled back “Who goes there?” asked a voice. “Who needs to know?” Asked Mike. “Let me tell you something you little punk you best tell me who goes there or I might just blow your head off or perhaps you’d like some lead in your stomach so ill ask you one more time, you’ve got till the count of three one. . . Two. . .- “were wonders Searching for a certain man,” said Mike. “who you searching for Boy,” asked the voice. “His name is-,” John Began “Not you the other one,” said the voice. “A man who goes by the name of Ben Sage,” said Mike. “Now why in the Hell are you searching for that man,” asked the voice. “Show yourself and maybe will tell you,” said Mike. “We cant do that,” said Mike. “Well Mister Let me tell you, your going to have to if you want me to show myself.,” said the voice. Mike let out a sigh “fine, John put your gun on the floor.” Mike and John put there guns on the floor “weave got our guns on the floor now come out,” said Mike. The Man came out he was a man about medium height wearing the same type of stuff Mike and John were wearing a brow jacket with a black shirt and blue jeans. “Y-y- were taken here by Sage like us,” asked Mike. “yeah about two years ago I never caught that demon I gave up after about a year I’ve lived in this town for a while and my name is Adam Taner.” “how have you been surviving, you know getting food and all that stuff,” asked John. “I’ve been shooting anything that comes along this may be a dessert but things do come around weather it’s a rabbit or a rattle snake,” said Adam. “Well were did you get the bullets?” asked John. “boy you are one to ask questions, well you know that the bullets never run out in the six shooters.” “W-What you mean the bullets don’t run out?” asked Mike. “Of course they don’t this world is diffident then earth, it’s like out of a book, well I suppose It could be the world or it could be Sage that’s doing it.” “Why do you think that Sage made us come here,” Asked Mike. “ who knows it could be that he loves the thrill of being chased or it could be that he’s leading us to something bigger who really knows, With a Psychopath like Sage it could be that he’s just bored and is just having fun with us making us go crazy,” said Adam Just as he finished his sentence he brought out his gun and shot something Mike looked over and saw a snake. “wow your fast I didn’t even see that,” said John. “yeah I was a rifle sharpshooter in the army you have to be fast. The only thing is I cant even catch Sage he’s faster then all three of us put together id say, well I suppose it’s only his magic but still.” After a while Mike said “listen Adam would you like to come with us I know you said that you could not catch Sage before but hey it’s worth trying again isn’t it.” Adam thought for a minute well I guess your right I’ve been waiting for Sage to comeback though the town, you see he dose a circle but I guess he’s been going around the town,” said Adam. “Great will head out now Sage is probley setting up his fire right now we might be able to catch him,” said mike. “I doubt it,” John muttered. 4 “Fools,” said Ben Sage he was looking in his magic ball the kind the gypsies called Crystal Balls “Actually thinking they might Catch me Ha no one has ever caught Me and I intend to keep it that way. Now lets look at the other subjects Bill Jennings he muttered” the ball zoomed in on a man that was lying on the floor of a building “dead” said Sage. 5 After about a day of almost non stop running Mike, John and Adam came upon another town. “Lets shack up here,” said Mike they opened a door to a house and were hit by a powerful stench, they all turned around. “what the hell is that screamed John. Adam looked over holding his breath “People,” said Adam “Id say three of them all dead.” “Well close the door,” said Mike “Sages work no doubt probley sent here just like us,” said John. “Well I guess we have to find some food,” Said Adam. “I don’t think were hungry,” said Mike. “yeah no,” said John. “Fine suit yourselves,” and with that Adam ran off to find something. 6 Adam was on his way back to the town when He herd a voice say “Hello Adam.” Adam took out his gun and spined around whose there. “Ha ha I would think you would know my name by now,” said Sage. “You,” Adam Whispered. “Who else my friend,” said Sage. Adam brought out his gun and shot at Sage. Sage laughed “you really think you could get me, not a chance never you might as well just give up like you did a year ago.” “Shut Up,” said Adam. “Well ok I guess you don’t want to hear how you can get home,” said Sage. “W-what,” said Adam. “What do you mean,” “ I mean you can go home if you do something for me.” “What’s that?” asked Adam. “It’s simple really all I want you to do is kill Mike and John, there getting to be a thorn in my side lately and I don’t really fancy killing them my self I really do like to see friends turn against friends” “never,” said Adam. “Fine,” said Sage here’s your other option, Sage brought out his gun and shot Adam in the stomach. “You son of a-,” Adam began. “hey I said I did not like that language,” said Sage he laughed and disappeared. 7 “Wonder were Adam is,” said Mike “Don’t know, want me too look for him,” asked John “Sure,” said Mike “but be careful.” After about a minute John stumbled upon Adam. “My god Adam who did this to you?” “Who else. . . Sage” Adam Died. “No, No,” said John After telling the news of Adams death to him Mike was silent for an hour After that. “Sage. . . Sage he’s the cause of all this hey had to bring us here he had to kill our friend he had to bring us along on this sick game I don’t really care about going home now we could make a life here I just want to kill sage the root of all our problems I want to make sure he dose not do this to anyone else. . . EVER 8 Mike and John had found a house to stay in for the night. John woke up in the morning and went into Mikes room to see that he wasn’t there he looked around and then he herd the words “SAGE, SAGE Come OUT YOU COWARD SAGEEEEEEEEE. John ran out gun at the Ready. “Mike what the hell are you doing?” he asked. “i’m calling him out I’m killing him today you can go if you want to I wont hold anything against you I just want him dead and gone SAGE.” “You really think your going to kill him Sage is a Wizard and a dark one at that and he’s fast on top of all that way to fast you wana get killed?” Mike looked down “I really don’t care,” he said “are you going to fight with me” John was silent for a while “you know I am you’re my brother I’d always stand by you even if your doing something totally crazy,” said John “Thanks John,” said Mike. “Yeah. . . . No problem 9 “So they want a gun fight do they, Ill give them one they’ll never forget. 10 “SAGE. . . SAGE COME OUT SA-.” What are you screaming about fool.” Mike and john looked over “You,” they said at the same time. “yes me,” responded sage. “so you want a final battle one in witch you know you’ll lose?” asked Sage. “don’t count on it. Mike brought out his gun and fired. Sage disappeared. Sage appeared behind them. “ha you’ll have to do better then that Mike you know i’m much faster then that. Mike fired three shots and John fired one. They both missed. Mike and john kept firing and Sage kept disappearing and reapering after about ten minutes of this sage started to fire. Mike and john ran the other way. Mike held his gun up but before he was able to fire Sage did Mike flew back and landed on his back. “no, NOOOOO,” John said. He found Mikes gun that went flying and fired round after round after Sage. Once again sage Kept disappearing. Sage laughed “don’t you know you’ll never get me. John got mad at this, Sage disappeared again and John shot again at the air he hoped this would work. Sage reappeared but with something different he had a bullet in his chest. He was in the air, John had fired were he thought Sage would go. Yo-you got M-m-me. Ben Sage fell to the ground Dead. 11 After about ten minutes John went over to were Mike lay. “mike I got him, I got him. He looked at Mike, he wasn’t dead but he was getting there. He put mikes head in his lap “Mike I got him,” he said again. “ that’s great Johnny Look i’m sorry we couldn’t go home but hey look on the bright side Sage cant do it to anyone else, Love you Johnny.” John was crying. L-l-love you Mike. Mike died. John stayed that way for about an hour he made his mind up. He had Mikes head in his lap and his own gun in his hand. “I’m coming Mike” Hey i know theres no indent or paragraph work it did not work out as well as i wanted it to when i transferd from microsoft works sorry

Is my husband getting paid enough? During Army Training? He is in Advanced Individual Training right now, but since he joined we have only been getting $950 USD deposited twice monthly. For dependents, he has me (his spouse!) and our daughter, 7 months old. It does not seem that he is getting his Basic Allowance for Housing (is this customary until he arrives at his duty station?)? Is he getting paid for us or just for himself? Our money is really tight and I pinch pennies every chance I get! I cloth diaper and have even stopped eating meat to try to reserve $ for when we have to relocate and so there is more financing to get our infant the things she needs!!! Is anything wrong with pay? IF so will he get back pay? Who should he contact if not? I'm getting very distressed over this! Any and all forms of experience, links, or advice are welcome! *extra info* He only has AIT until Oct. 23rd. We have over a month before he has to report to his duty station and I don't see how we can afford all expenses!!! We're not trying to get gosh darn rich! We only get about $1200 USD a month (what a normal single guy NOT in the military would get paid each month at least working at factory job with only a high school education!). We don't have a vehicle but need to get one before he gets stationed. We have bills just like everyone else and a few debts to pay off. I can't work right now because I have no transportation and I can't get a job where I will make a profit after having to pay for childcare! Please only answer if you understand the situation!

I been having this crazy dream over and over how do i make it stop? This is the dream >last night i dreamt that i was going to school i dont know but in the dream i stole my brother rifle and went to school with it and shot everyone i see then when the cop came i ran away to this black man house he said to me no1 could find me here then he was trying to sell me some drugs i think i forgot what happen at that part uh i end up stabbing him with a knife then i cut him into pieces and put him in a bag and threw him into the ocean then it jsut blank out right there ,next thing i know i was in ancient time japan with a katana fighting in a war then it hop over to modern warfare i was in an army and etc running for some reason and then i got shot or something and i wake up around 3;40 am in the morning sweating like hell. i had this same dream like twice now not in a row but like 2 weeks apart its really weird am i crazy or soemthign lol ><

What Army RegulationS Cover Religion? If a person feels an attack is being made against their religion either directly or indirectly, what should this person do? What regulations or articles covers the issue? What can be done to ensure that the inappropriate actions are stopped? Example: A person in their appartment in onpost housing says the word "hallelluja" and a neighbor with known different beliefs hears it and makes a complaint about noise which leads the Military Police to try and charge a person with "disorderly conduct". (The person being charged has given a sworn statement as to what the noise was) This is only an example and in the real situation the person's beliefs do not conform with what a majority of military members believe. This leads the person to believe that not only are they being wronged by the neighbors but also the Military Police. The issue is that the person said "something" using it in the same manner a Christian might use the word halleluja. The person did not scream out the word however it was said loud enough for any person LISTENING for it to hear. It seems to me like a form of harrassment from all of the accusers and it seems like there should be some course of action is said case. Keep in mind this is on post stairwell living and it can be expected that you will hear the noises of your neighbors no matter what actions might be taking place. I think you have failed to understand what I am writing. I have been to this appartment. A person talking at a resonable level on a telephone can be heard through the floor/cealing depending on which appartment you are in. An average conversation between two people can be clearly understood. A toilet can be heard flushing. This person was not being overtly loud.

What if we do nothing about amnesty?

Divorce tips for an Army wife of 5 years in Texas- own house, but no kids!? My husband and I were married for 5 years- he joined a week after we got married. After his 1st deployment he came home an alcoholic and got physically and verbally aggressive while drunk. I stuck by him because I wanted to support him through whatever he was going through, but he cheated on me and things got rough. He refused marriage counseling and I just did what I could to keep it together. Almost a year ago he returned from a 2nd deployment and things have been much worse. He's still drinking (now drinking and driving) and the abuse has gotten worse and no longer requires alcohol. About 4 weeks ago he moved out and is living with a friend (and his new girlfriend). He stopped his pay to my account and as an E-5 only has to give me $250 per check/$500 a month! I had to call IG to help me get a protective order because of his violent history and they are now investigating him for adultery (he admitted to cheating now and back then). I have since been looking for a job, but my car was being repaired for several weeks and I'm just now able to follow through with interviews. In the mean time $500 isn't going to pay our $1200 mortgage or $650 in car payments/insurance. I don't care if the credit cards and student loans get paid, I can recover from that, but I'm left in this house and feel like he just pulled the rug out from under me. I still think this is Post traumatic stress disorder, but I can't let him destroy my life because of it. Texas and the Army have weird laws that don't seem to help me much and I NEED all the help I can get. If I get a job and can pay the bills will I still have to sell this house? How does a judge decide who gets what? I had foster children before, that WAS my job, but obviously this wasn't a good environment for them so I'm now looking for a job. I was also a substitute teacher and summertime is here... I'm not sitting in self pity, I just don't want to loose my life. I can't leave here until I find homes for my animals- the house I'm talking about is a small farm so the horses, and other animals deserve to have good homes, but he says if I sell them he'll sue me for half of anything I sell! Ok, this is getting longer and longer, thank you all for reading and answering. JAG won't help me because we own property I have to get a civilian lawyer, but with no money can't pay a retainer. I'm not being a helpless victim, I'm just not sure what to do...

Article - Latin America 700 cases child trafficking. What are the Governments doing to protect the Children? The Governments of the World are supposed to protect the children. What makes you think that your children or your children's children won't be the next victim of child sex slavery? *Perilous Times Latin America's secret slave trade* Oliver Balch reports from the triple frontier of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, where humans have become the most sought-after contraband. Wednesday December 20, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Sit by the swimming pool of the exclusive Iguazú Jungle hotel and you can watch the "contrabandistas" emerging from the undergrowth. All day, an army of smugglers can be seen passing along the mountainous path that separates Argentina from Brazil. Locals know it as the "pique". It is just one of a dozen or more unofficial crossing points on the so-called triple frontier, the name given to the porous border area where Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil meet. Article continues Everything from fake branded clothing to Class A drugs are ferried back and forth along these clandestine routes. The list of contraband goods now also extends to human beings. The human-trafficking business is estimated to be worth over £10bn a year, making it the world's third most profitable criminal activity after drug-smuggling and gun-running. Many of those trafficked through the triple frontier are destined for the illegal labour market in Brazil or Argentina. The trade in babies for adoption is also widely reported. But a large proportion end up as sex workers. Many end up in brothels across the region, although a high number are destined for the triple frontier's own thriving sex industry. Children are particularly vulnerable to human traffickers. Charities working with at-risk children in the border region estimate that as many as 3,500 young people could be involved. "Many girls are trafficked via the pique. It's all highly organised", explains Marcelina Antunez, director of Luz de Infancia, a children's care centre in the Argentine town of Puerto Iguazú. Driving the trade is the flood of foreign tourists who come to visit the world famous Iguazú waterfalls. Much of the demand for prostitution is casual. Yet the region also attracts a hardened group of sex tourists. The region's reputation for prostitution is not new. In the late 1970s, around 40,000 workers flooded into the triple frontier to help build the colossal Itaipú hydroelectric dam. Around 97% of the new workforce were men. As the dam went up, so too did the demand for paid-for sex. "The triple frontera is the Bangkok of Latin America...after the tsunami, many sex tourists started coming here instead of Asia," notes Cynthia Bendlin, director of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) for the triple frontier area. IOM runs a number of awareness programmes to highlight the dangers of the trafficking trade. But it is an uphill struggle. Many of the children most at risk either live on the street or come from very impoverished families, Ms Bendlin explains. In some cases of extreme destitution, children are even contracted out by their parents. There is a blind beggar in Puerto Igazú, for example, who walks the streets hand-in-hand with a seven year-old girl. He makes his living by renting her out for sex. She is his neighbour's daughter. The situation is complicated further by the "recruiters". Often known to the victims, they promise the opportunity of work across the border. When the fictitious jobs never materialise, the victims finds themselves trapped and unable to return home. IOM also works with local government agencies and the police in an attempt to develop coordinated strategies to stop the traffickers. Again, prgress is slow. In Argentina alone, there are at least five separate security agencies operating in the border zone. Between the three countries, the problem of coordination becomes triply complicated, Ms Bendlin admits. At a national level, there are some signs of encouragement. This week, Argentina's lower house is scheduled to discuss a bill that would officially recognise underage human trafficking in the criminal code. Victim organisations welcome such measures, but remain sceptical about how much difference they will make on the ground. Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay all have separate laws and legal processes. Add to that the variety of municipal, provincial and national legislation and you have a complex legal web to navigate. It is a journey that many victims would rather not undertake. In addition to the psychological and financial implications of pursuing a court case, many fear the threat of reprisals. "Although we know about more than 700 cases of child trafficking, we have only reported 40 in the last three years", confesses Benigno Cáceres, a lawyer with CEAPRA, a children's charity in the Paraguayan border town of Ciudad del Este. Only one of these complaints resulted in a guilty verdict. The relative impunity for sex-related crimes is in keeping with cultural attitudes in the triple frontier. The region's strong culture of machismo holds that sex with underage girls is safer and a sign of male virility, says Norma Pereira, a child psychologist in Ciudad del Este. In addition, the mothers of trafficked children are frequently themselves the victims of abuse or involved in prostitution, she explains: "Families often refuse to recognise the problem. It's as if this new form of slavery has become natural." · Oliver Balch is a freelance journalist based in Argentina.